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Guide: Splitting User Stories

What is Splitting User Stories?
Splitting user stories is a strategy in Scrum that aims to break larger user stories into smaller ones in a way that each maintains a meaningful piece of the user functionality. This allows for more manageable, estimable and testable user stories.
Why is it Important?
Splitting user stories is important as it provides specificity, making it easier to estimate, design, and implement. It also provides a mechanism for prioritizing individual parts of a larger function according to the value they deliver to the user.
How it works?
There are several techniques you can use to split user stories such as by workflow steps, by data, by operations, and more. The goal is to make each user story independently able to return value to the user and not to create a sequence of dependent stories.
Exam Tips: Answering Questions on Splitting User Stories
1. Understand the principles and techniques of splitting user stories.
2. Examiners will look for a deep understanding of how and why to split user stories.
3. Practice splitting complex stories into smaller user stories.
4. Pay close attention to the INVEST criteria in creating a 'good' user story: Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable.
5. Understand the benefits and approach of splitting user stories when attempting to answer exam questions related to this concept.
Remember, each split story should still deliver value to the customer and meet the Definition of Done.
Keep these points in mind for your PSM-I exam and you will be better equipped to answer questions on Splitting User Stories.

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Splitting User Stories is the process of breaking down a large user story into smaller, manageable units. The goal of splitting is to make the stories small enough to estimate, yet large enough to provide value when completed. A common technique is to split stories vertically encompassing all system layers and components, as this ensures that each user story remains an independent piece of business functionality from the user's perspective. The benefit of splitting user stories is that it aids the development team in understanding and estimating complexity and implementation time more accurately, and it reduces the overall risk associated to any single unit of work.

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