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In projects i often see that there is still a lot of confusion about User Stories and planning. This article of the famous Scott Ambler describes the way you should plan and use User Stories within Agile projects. One common mistake is that a User Story is much smaller than a Use Case. Introduction   to User Stories A good way to think about a user story is that it is a reminder to have a conversation with your customer (in XP,  project stakeholders  are called customers), which is another way to say it's a reminder to do some just-in-time analysis.  In short, user stories are very slim and high-level requirements artifacts. Initial  User Stories (Informal) As you can see in  Figure 1  user stories are small, much smaller than other usage requirement artifacts such as  use cases  or  usage scenarios .  It's important to recognize that each of the statements in  Figure 1  represents a single user story.  Figur...