Variations in Data

User can search in English

User can search in Spanish

Workflow Steps

User can create a policy directly

User can create a policy to be held for legal review

Business Rule Variations

User can search for flights between 2 dates

User can search for flights for “any weekend

between now and December”

User can search for flights +/- 3 days between

December 15 and December 20

Major Effort

User can pay with Paypal

User can pay with Stripe integration

User can pay with online check

Simple/Complex

User can search for flights with a maximum

number of stops

User can search for flights with a maximum

number of stops

and departing from SAN OR JWI

Data Entry Methods

User can enter data in text field

User can upload CSV

Defer Performance

User can get results within 5 seconds

User can get results within 1 second

Operations (CRUD)

User can sign up for an account

User can edit account settings

User can delete account

If you have stories that are trivially small, I would recommend combining them into

a single “combo story” that falls below the 123 threshold.

Sometimes the user stories are too big and the team has trouble thinking

beyond “horizontal splitting” (front end, business rules, back end, database).

Here are some patterns for splitting stories:

HOW TO SPLIT STORIES THAT ARE TOO BIG

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