Meta: Using names in user stories

[nickrivadeneira]

Apologies if this is not the right medium for discussion, feel free to delete this.

I noticed that you all use names (e.g. Alex, Felicity, Peter, etc.) instead of generic descriptors (e.g. A user, An admin). Do those name refer to actual people or are they mostly to make the user stories sound more personal?

[seadowg]

Hey @nickrivadeneira! The names refer to the different Personas that we've developed for Postfacto. Personas let us build a picture of different kinds of users of the app and their needs wants. I have an item in our backlog to add the definitions to this repo (#58) as they're in our private files right now. I'll try to get round to this as soon as I can. I'll close that issue as a duplicate and prioritize this.

As a brief explanation of the names though:

• Felicity is a the retro facilitator, generally creates and owns the retro
• Peter is a retro participant so generally joins the retro rather than running it/owning it
• Alex is our admin and currently the Persona we think of as having installed the instance of Postfacto

Personas as a concept are something we use a lot in our product development here at Pivotal Labs and they're a major part of User Centered Design. I've attached one of our UCD toolkits in case you're interested in reading a little more about it.

UCDGuide_16.07.2017 (4).pdf

[nickrivadeneira]

This is great stuff, thanks for sharing!

[seadowg]

Ah no worries about closing. I'll leave this open until the info is in the repo.