In a Certified ScrumMaster course this week one of the teams created some haiku on the topic of user stories. Here is what they came up with:

INVEST your time in telling stories that give you meaning moving on…

Unique perspective inward and outward focused simply understood

The user wishes to do something on the site they do not know why

Start with a user a new or improved feature gives us the value

As a Scrum novice I want to learn this method so that we can plan

The confirmation makes conversation simple and settles details

Not bad for 5 minutes worth of work. Some of the items that were referenced: