Planning with Agile User Stories

Successful agile planning
Agile project management involves short cycles of the software developments. Such developments are meant to produce incremental updates regarding the product based on the varying needs of the consumers. Successful Agile projects require planning steps that must be followed to continuously monitor the progress of the project. One of the primary practices that are necessary for the agile projects is the creation of agile user stories that acts as the centerpiece of agile planning (Serrador, Pedro, and Jeffrey, 2015, pg. 1047). Some stages required include the rapid iterative plan that involves development cycles of the software. The project team continuously evaluates the project and gathers the immediate user feedback that may be used as guidelines for further developments of the product.

Estimation of user stories
The first step in the estimation of agile projects with user stories involves coming up with the user roles and responsibilities in the project. Once the roles of the users have been identified and determined as for how they relate with the agile projects, the project team creates successful user stories that will be utilized in the continuous development of the project. In this case, the project team employs the great user stories regarding the product to produce accurate and predictable results of the software (Torrecilla-Salinas, 2015 pg.129). The last step in the estimation of user stories involves organizing the agile project with themes and Epics. Using epics or themes enables the project team in organizing user stories into various groups. Mostly, the epics are realized when the user stories have been gathered. It is a method in which all similar stories from the user regarding the software are organized into appropriate work streams. In conclusion, agile projects produce excellent results, and their success depends on the planning steps that make the project fast moving.

Work Cited
Serrador, Pedro, and Jeffrey K. Pinto. "Does Agile work?—A quantitative analysis of agile project success." International Journal of Project Management 33.5 (2015): 1040-1051.

Torrecilla-Salinas, C. J., et al. "Estimating, planning and managing Agile Web development projects under a value-based perspective." Information and Software Technology 61 (2015): 124-144.