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INVEST
A checklist for good user stories: Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small and Testable.
Say it to an AI
Write one INVEST user story for exporting paid invoices as CSV for a date range. Keep it small and independent: CSV only, no expenses, no new reporting engine. Give testable acceptance criteria with the exact columns, the default range and a numeric performance limit.
How an expert would brief the stronger version of “Invoice export story”.
See it
Try it as a puzzle →A founder of an invoicing app for freelancers writes the story the team will pick up next sprint.
Why: A passes all six. B fails Independent (waits on INV-188), Small (invoices plus expenses in several formats) and Testable ('fast', 'all the fields').
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Room 3 · User stories
Learn “INVEST” in a five-minute lesson