Work Item Type: Story
This work item represents properties and status of the story being implemented.
Main description

There are different approaches for the creation of user stories. The analyst could create the user story work item in IBM Rational Team Concert while the high level requirement that originated the user story is detailed in a requirements management tool. Alternatively, the analyst or team lead could create and detail the user story work item in Rational Team Concert during iteration planning. In both cases the user story work item instances do not represent the story or the work performed to implement the story, but rather only properties and status of the story. To explicitly represent, manage, and track the concrete work to be done to realize a story, the story is refined into development tasks as recommended by Complete Story activity.

The following table shows the Story work item state machine:

Output States

Input States

New In Progress Implemented Done Deferred Invalid
  Initialize / Plan Iteration (Project Level)          
New   Start working /  Develop Story: (story name) (start) Set implemented / Develop Story: (story name) (end)     Reject / Plan Iteration (Project Level)
In Progress     Complete development / Develop Story: (story name) (end)   Defer / Manage Iteration (Project Level) Reject / Manage Iteration (Project Level)
Implemented   Reopen / Plan Iteration (Project Level)   Complete testing / Test (pass) Defer / Manage Iteration (Project Level) Reject / Manage Iteration (Project Level)
Done Reopen / Test (fail)          
Deferred Reopen / Plan Iteration (Project Level)         Reject / Manage Iteration (Project Level)
Invalid            

Table 1 - State machine of the Story work item