My User Story Template

Below is the template I created for writing user stories. # User Story As a... I want... So that... # Description Lorem... # Acceptance Criteria - bullet criteria GIVEN setup WHEN action THEN result I write a lot of user stories for my team, and they need to be clear, to the point, and verifiable. This template was born out of a need for consistency in how user stories were defined and written and aims to give a development team the bare minimum they need to deliver a hot, fresh slice of valuable software.

Who Am I?

I am the outlaw. I am the innocent. I am the sage. I am the jester. I am the everyman. I am the ruler. I am the caregiver. I am the explorer. I am the hero. I am the artist. I am the magician. I am the lover. I am the slave. I am the master. I am the giver of life. I am the wreaker of havoc. I am the one who decides.

It was a beautiful day for disc golf, and then 10 minutes later… it wasn’t 😅

A concrete disc golf tee pad and disc golf bag in the foreground with a grass field and trees in the background.A red disc golf basket in front of trees with blurry snowflakes speeding through the frame.

I love weekend days when I can stroll around town, ducking in and out of local shops with the family.

An alleyway with murals of astronauts in space flanking either side.

Blogroll

I added a blogroll to my site! I had been thinking about creating this for a while, and the new recommendations feature in Micro.blog gave me the push to finally do it. I added it to my navigation links, but… it’s getting really crowded up there. I may have to do something about that, but I want people to be able to find my blogroll, and putting a link in any of my other pages didn’t seem quite right.

It’s a tough job being the human garbage disposal that cleans up after family meals, but someone has to do it.

Filling out a local tax refund form this morning, dreaded but necessary 🙄. I only worked in the office 16% of the time last year. I actually spent more time not working at all, since I was able to use parental leave. I’m feeling thankful for NASA’s parental leave policy!

Remember To Live, An Interactive Haiku

days lived more to go remember to live! Input your own numbers into the haiku above as a reminder to yourself to live! For the first box, calculate your_age_in_years * 365 For the second box, calculate your_expected_max_age_in_years * 365 - first_box_value calculator-1.com Originally I had hoped to make this much more dynamic so that you could input your current age and expected max age and I would handle all the calculating behind the scenes, but alas Javascript doth not jive with Markdown.

My wife and I finally put pins in our world map! I’m grateful for the travel opportunities we’ve had, but there’s a lot more yet to be explored! 📍🗺️

A framed world map on a wall with a handful of pins around north America.