How to Split A User Story In Just 2 Steps.

It's time to split Epics and Features into right-sized User Stories.
Splitting a User Story doesn't have to be overwhelming.
In this video, I will discuss
6 fundamental techniques WAHZUR that all other techniques are variations of.
As a BONUS I will also share one easy-to-use technique that I created T-SPLIT.
After mastering T-SPLIT you won't need any other User Story Splitting technique.
In addition, this video also answers the following questions
What are User Stories
Difference between Epic, Stories, and Tasks
Benefits of splitting
Vertical vs Horizontal Splitting
Difficulties with Vertical Stories
What to do when we can't split a user story
There's a lot to come. So Stay Tuned.
00:00 - Intro
00:54 - What are User Stories
02:25 - Epics vs Stories vs Tasks
04:12 - Benefits of splitting
05:07 - How to split User Stories
11:01 - Different splitting patterns
16:35 - I created a splitting pattern
17:33 - Outro
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[@derekrempfer5814]

Probably the best video I've seen on the topic of splitting user stories. Well done.

[@TristanBailey]

Had not heard of the acronym WAHZUR. Thank you for introducing it as a way to break up or write stories

[@hemabrijesh6710]

Each video I see ,I get to understand different dimensions of agile. Cannot thank you enough.. Accepted you as my agile coach..

[@piotrlanger7744]

You are doing a great job, Vibroh, thank you!

[@dougtalbot193]

Great video. I really like the speed and content of your presentations. The examples are invaluable. Keep up the great work.

[@womanlikeme33]

I just came across your videos and I am glued. Thank you for the content

[@blessed3830]

All your videos are great! I have been binge watching your videos! Thank you for creating great content thats easy to understand!!

[@ankursharma7812]

Awesome, precise and crisp

[@IshaLuthra-yt6ug]

I love to watch and learn from your videos. This one is amazing

[@Rick1972mx]

Great video, one of the best visual video ever seen. Thanks for the great job

[@rajkumarmfsr]

One of the best explanation for refinement in agile space. Thanks vibhor

[@sanjeevsadasheorao5294]

Simply outstanding

[@CindyAlexius]

Great stuff Vibhor! As a Scrum Master, I want to coach the team on breaking down user stories, so that they're committing to achievable stories within each sprint. No time like the present for practice :)

[@raymondlynch660]

Really excellent summary of the activity...

[@CJModestoful]

I just finished my scrum master certification, and am using an agile approach outside of software. This video really helped me figure a way to adapt the approach to my project.

[@Sina-sd6qp]

Good man with confidence. Thank you for the video! :)

[@TosinOlajide]

I love your videos Vibhor!! Very informative. Please keep them coming! 👏🏽👏🏽

[@VibhorChandel]

Thank you Tosin

[@atul.singh008]

Great learning and thanks for sharing. Looking forward to more such videos.

[@krishnachaitanya7712]

Hi Vibhor , Thats a wonderful video and best part is the Practical Examples and not the Concept . Thank you and Well done

[@MrLwliang]

Thank you! This is super clear

[@MLaurenavicius]

Very enlightening!

[@keerthipt736]

Wow, great video Vibhor. Was a very informative presentation with a great tone. Glad I stumbled on this video. Beautifully summarized. Thank you!

[@VibhorChandel]

Appreciate that Keerthi, thank you

[@igorsk19]

Great video! thank you for the presentation and examples. it would be great if you can show us a proper backlog, how is defined with epics, user stories and tasks....

[@saketsharma653]

Thank your for Information it’s too much helpful

[@Deepzdone]

Crisp and Clear Vibhor 👍

[@samtimy]

Thanks a lot Vibhor! it is really simple and easy to understand

[@firozkhaleel8461]

Thank you for helping and sharing this video

[@menakaramasamy8936]

Very nice explanation. Thanks. Learnt a lot.

[@pargunandurairaj2377]

short and on point vibhor... great video.

[@vikrama2189]

Excellent explanations and well made videos Vibhor .

[@vishwanathauti644]

Great work sir

[@lizflint3580]

great content! Graphics are on point and the body of the videos is super relevant! thank you for the hard work!!!!!

[@VibhorChandel]

Appreciate you Liz, thanks alot

[@hemantdhakate]

Excellent!!!

[@elizabethkengne2928]

Excellent content..... very informative

[@Ask_LyRc]

im a student and while doing a project for Software Engineering i came across this video and it helps alot :D

[@mayazansari6135]

Thank you so much, this video clear so many doubts

[@anbuarasi8110]

You have nailed it 👍

[@stevenicolas2431]

Its very helpfull thankyou

[@janka2474]

Great 👍

[@ramachandusharma5867]

Really a valuable and informative and interesting video. Thanks for sharing such good content.

[@muhammaddevanozaidan6837]

very good explanations , thank you

[@Loc_87cdp]

very clear!! thanks

[@priyankatapare5278]

great explanation sir !

[@anthonyifedirah9672]

Thank you for making it look easy

[@elnini0]

Wonderful content.

[@SrividyaNatarajan]

Excellent awesome!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@firozkhaleel8461]

Valuable information

[@damarisfozaopowell3137]

You are good Vibhor. So glad I found your channel. I just started my new scrum master role. Thank you for sharing your time and knowledge with us. By the way you are very handsome and organized. God bless you 🙏

[@taherkayamkhani8214]

Excellent!

[@tomvance3914]

Mind Blown!

[@shubhrasharma4189]

your explaination made the whole user story funda like a cake walk...casual but impactful explaination. Thanks Vibhor !

[@user-jp6ui3en2b]

this is informative, although you have a slightly different approach than others, it does make sense what you are talking about. Thumbs up.

[@GauravSharma-oe3gt]

Awesome content, its very helpful. Thank you Vibhor.

[@UmairKhan-hc2ql]

Great stuff as always 👍

[@I_want_to_break-free]

Thank you from Thailand

[@thx5001]

This is a really useful video and I like the analogy of the slice of cake.

[@jodajo21]

Very good synopsis!

[@pricesmith1793]

Looking forward to the tutorial series on “effective user stories”

[@2Black4yall]

"JUST BE AGILE" 🙌🙏👌

[@mytruereviewsandgenuineinf1131]

Great Video Vibhor .. thank you !!

[@TheMyriade]

Thank you so much for such deep knowledge sharing. a big thx

[@VibhorChandel]

Thank you Mariem

[@ghkhellfire007]

fantastic

[@tonyplank]

I enjoyed this. Very succinct with a lot of information conveyed. I agreed with 80% of this which is a record: I don't even agree with myself that mych.

[@ashishsachdeva8092]

Hey Vibhor, Very well explained 👌

[@MadhuReddy-jg6od]

Great video👍

[@latoyascott802]

This is definitely really good content! I would be interested in connecting to learn more tips and trick for Agile.

[@BibliLit]

💯superb video !

[@raev4u]

Loved the video.. one of the best videos I have watched 🤝🤝🤝

[@raev4u]

Please let me know on how to further collaborate for personal learning/consultancy/brainstorming. Will connect with you

[@veronicagola9901]

Great session. I will definitely try vertical slicing, knowing that my teams are committed frontend and backend developers and are so used to horizontal approach.

[@tonyplank]

Vertical slice is hard, but worth the effort.

[@raghukm5526]

Awesome video, the content was really good.

[@VibhorChandel]

Thank you Raghu

[@ahealthyyouwithdoctornew9749]

I would like to hear more about why you've found that only 35% of User Stories fit the INVEST criteria; and how a Scrum Master can be sure they are appropriately and consistently applying the INVEST criteria.

[@reshmach3212]

Ur agile Guru sir, thank you for simplifying and helping people like me. Do u also coach one on one??

[@benjwal]

liked it thank you. any inputs on how to roll up weights to stories with tasks.

[@stefanoercole6569]

Hi, Vibhor thank you for your video very interesting. In the teams, I am following I often have the "Horizontally issue" (that you well explained). This is because as you said,, there are silos (Analysts, Developers, Testers) and often they aren't able to do all three tasks in one sprint. In this case, what is your suggestion? Let them divide the US horizontally or maintain a single story for more than one sprint or another.

[@saranshmehra8577]

Great Content!! Thank you for sharing. I just wanna say, that the "T Split" part was really confusing, It didn't make any logical sense to me. I think many others have also commented on it. if you have some time then it would be great if you can clarify this method here or make a detailed video around it.

[@chiarabozzacchi2299]

Nice video! but I have a question: when talking about acceptance criteria you create 3 user stories which do not seem very independent to me. what's the deal with the independency criterium for user stories then?

[@agilemindset247]

Hi Vibhor, You have not been posting videos for over a long period.Hope all is well with you. I miss coming here to study through your ever detailed , informative, clear, and quality videos .

[@stressboy4326]

Would you be able to create a video on creating User Stories / EPICs on Dashboarding projects (like Qlik Sense, Tableau and Power BI) where it involved everything from Data Source to ETL and then to the Dashboards & Maintenance. I agree with you on the point whereby we shouldn't split the stories horizontally but there has been very little examples online and even on KZbin on how you can do that vertically in the field of Dashboard Development. Most are usually related to Software Development. And for Dashboard Development, it is usually the ETL which takes up the bulk of the time (and Data Validation after modelling them to check if the process is valid/right).

[@guybrushthreepwood2910]

In the T-Split example, we have these 2 cases: S1) breadth: "As a traveller, I can pay using my credit card" S2) depth: "As a traveller, to pay I need to enter my card details" How can S1 be implemented without S2? In other words, what would we be testing in S1?

[@asrulh]

Is that printed text editor at 10:17 🤣? Good videos by the way, thank you.

[@rakshakohlinarola-ho4vw]

great info, impressive... could u show me, how i can download it.pls tell

[@OluwatosinOladipo-pj4ue]

Very insightful. Can I please get more help on splitting user stories and acceptance criteria.

[@kateykaplan325]

Great content Vibhor! Am I mistaken to assume that your 'T-Split' technique splits stories by Scenarios (breath) and Workflow requirements (depth)? Cheers!

[@marna_li]

I have recently been in a team who did just that: Split by layer. Using tasks. Since we had dedicated frontend and backend developers it was hard to coordinate - and we struggled to close our User Stories. In some ways they were not real User Stories either, but renditions of the Requirements.

[@teonaloving7654]

I am in the same situation

[@jojee.k]

I wish I was In the same situation 😊

[@guybrushthreepwood2910]

I have the same problem on my team, but we still split by vertical slices. Frontend (FE) devs work on the FE tasks, backend (BE) devs on the backend and then we integrate. It's not ideal but, nevertheless, we deliver a full vertical slice, not a layer.

[@marna_li]

@@guybrushthreepwood2910 It depends on what the team is used to and if they are comfortable taking command and organize it the way it works best or them as a team. There is a problem when the team members are used to do tickets rather than features. And some environments sadly treat features as tickets to be completed once they have been planned. There is no replanning ever.

[@guybrushthreepwood2910]

​@@marna_li Yes, the most difficult thing to change is the culture and what people have been used to doing for a long time. You said "some environments sadly treat features as tickets to be completed once they have been planned". I'm not sure I understood this or what you are pointing with it. Are you talking about how they behave more like "bots" to get the job done and they don't take the time to analyze and perhaps split the stories into multiple other ones?

[@parthkumarpatel2775]

Great explanation, Thank you very much for creating this tutorial series. When will you be releasing seperate tutorial series on "User stories"?

[@VibhorChandel]

I am seriously delayed on this. Thanks for inquiring.

[@saishekarpeddi1239]

@@VibhorChandel You are awesome, please do it

[@ahmadrezamoodi6603]

Hi Vibhor, thanks for your Great explained series. Helped me and my team a lot. In 14:00 you have a happy path, which I assume that it's from the last approach(Acceptance Criteria). Am I correct, or it's the Happy story for the "user log in"?

[@volvorin6891]

I would like to hear more on vertical split of US, how a US1 & US2 are so independent to be delivery separately? In practice you wouldn't more than 20% developers which are full stack.

[@greatladyp6632]

hey Vibhor, I noticed you didn't talk about the Moscow technique, what's your take on it ?

[@mohitkhandelwal4759]

Hi Vibhor, Your content is really valuable and helped me in understanding & implementing. Is there any technique or approach for Acceptance Criteria?

[@VibhorChandel]

Hi Mohit, I have a technique that I will be sharing in my newsletter soon.

[@rajeshphilip1471]

I have a question regarding enablers. Context here is team will say they need to come up with design and those are enablers. Only once the design is there they can develop. Can you share some detailed insight of what really is an enabler and what is not.

[@K-Killerzz]

Hi Vibhor I have a question, in case that you split the story by Workflow as your example and I just release 2 stories are: As A Customer I can log into my account, So I don't have to enter my shipping information every time and As a Customer, I receive a confirmation email with my order, So I have proof of my order. In this case, we deliver 2 stories but the second story does not bring value to customers because they need to wait until the remaining stories are completed to fulfill the buy flow. In this case, could I merge it into one?

[@matisseterdam]

Hi Vibhor, great video btw, have a question wrt WAHZUR, do you need to apply *all* of these for each user story, or simply select most appropritate one and apply it. Thanks!

[@VibhorChandel]

You just apply what you need. Wahzur is a checklist so you pass through all possible ways of splitting.

[@sangeethamanohar8294]

Hi, Can you help me what is feature in Agile, where doess it fit in agile ?

[@TheImmaculateJ]

Hi. Great video. Friendly heads up, you skipped the V in INVEST while stating what each letter means.

[@martin82844]

I am still interested in the cake scenario. If you are building a new system, setting up everything is not possible in 1 sprint to create a slice of cake. And we can do pair programming, still it won't be delivered in 1 sprint. So what we do then?

[@johnpaulstephen_officialpa5214]

what the difference between an epic and a feature

[@siva5690]

Awesome content. Do you plan to release a separate series on user stories ?

[@VibhorChandel]

Yes will be published in the new year

[@siva5690]

@@VibhorChandel thank you for the reply. Look forward to it

[@tenispirata]

That black print at 10:20 is giving me nightmares

[@adeelahmed8403]

what are story points and how we determine the complexity using story points?

[@anushamylavarapu605]

My po created only one userstory for over all developementand asked me to create subtask for every activity in development...is it good?i thought of creating usersstories for ddl/dml and procedure scripts and testing....if we create subtasks then how to maintain and move to very sprint and how to estimate... please give me insight on this ..code is bigquery so we don't have ui