Story elaboration

Story elaboration provides the lowest level of story decomposition.

The key elements of story elaboration are

  1. Elicitation
  2. Story decomposition
  3. Acceptance criteria
  4. Any other optional elements

Story elaboration helps to identify tasks. It helps to develop data tables and you can actually develop mockups while using this technique.

The advantages of using the technique is that it decreases elicitation time and the disadvantages is the timing of when we gather requirements could be off. Eliciting it too early could end up resulting in rework.