This site hosts the content relating to the Business Story Method created by Paul Gerrard and Susan Windsor of Gerrard Consulting.
The Method is supported by and largely documented in a book called "The Business Story Pocketbook" which is available for FREE DOWNLOAD or can be purchased from Gerrard Consulting (or other good booksellers).
In the meantime, you can contact the authors through this email address: authors@businessstorymethod.com or through the Gerrard Consulting Website.
The Book
Download the E-Book version - FREE
Buy Hardcopy version for £10
The Training Course
Building Better Software with Business Stories
It’s all about communication, communication, communication…..
Using business stories and examples to build better software is an approach that
is currently being adopted by forward thinking organisations and individuals.
This approach places business stories at the heart of software
development, regardless of your development approach.This is a brand new training course aimed at business analysts, developers and testers which will show them how to communicate in the natural language of Business Stories:
- Business analysts derive Business Stories from requirements to confirm with
stakeholders that requirements can be trusted.
- Developers take the same stories and use them to help design their code and automatically test it.
- Test analysts take the same stories and add detail required for system and acceptance testing as software becomes available.
The brochure sets out our schedule of public courses for 2012 shortly. Of course, we are happy to present courses on your site too.
The Method is supported by two tools:
- Maelscrum supports Agile/Scrum Projects: Maelscrum Tool Website
- Business Story Manager supports Structured/Waterfall Projects: BSM Tool Website