CSA: Software Engineering - User Stories

My name is Andrés and I am a senior director of

engineering

on the Xbox team at Microsoft. My name is Gemma Bassoni and I am the CEO of Discover Labs. My name is Pan and I am a

software

engineer at Xbox. My name is Porva. I'm a lead product manager at Uber. When I think of a

user

story, it's pretty much the scenario you try to solve every time you start a new product. What are your scenarios? That's the way I think about

user

s, so think of it as almost like a storyboard, what do we use this product for?

We are creating this feature. This is when you start doing all the brainstorming and posting to the user describing how they use an app or a product that my user needs x what are the things that I What you have to do for each of the

stories

about code, hardware and experiences to be able to make that happen. Your user base, right? It's all of us, they give you the feedback you need to be able to build the experiences. What is the history? of the user when they enter, what do they do first, do they click this button first, move forward first, how do they do these things, then you need that feedback to design what the experience will look like, we always listen to our customers, what do they want next?

And you start from the beginning: "Okay, I need to enable the hardware to talk to the creators." When we write a new feature, we want to be sure you'll like it. We are going to use it and it will add value to our platform. User scenarios are one of those things that you have, you know, program managers, you have

software

engineers, you have designers, you have user experience experts, so it's a process to make that user scenario just lightweight. Perfectly, user interviews are direct interviews where the user tells you how they use your product, so you should optimize for people who are learning from that experience.

It always starts with how can we make our users happy, what are the things that they need and that's where the creative process really begins, you start developing scenarios from which you can learn a lot from the customers, so we get a lots of data continually and you learn from it, so it's like this really dynamic cycle of just learning. and trying it's important to get ideas from a diverse set of people, so I think that's very key to making a successful product. It's definitely exciting to finally push a product, it takes us months, so when we finally launch it we're so excited it's been a long time coming, it seems simple, but getting to that simplicity is because you're actually doing a lot of these things. scenario-based coding pieces behind a user story.

I'm excited to offer our customers something really cool, seeing other people use your product is really, really cool. amazing