MINVEST User Stories

MINVEST extends the traditional INVEST criteria by adding a requirement that each story be Measurable by identifying specific success metrics.
This ensures the teams can take a truly data-informed approach vs speculating if a story or epics was successful or not.

A Measurable story must specify:

  • Which specific metric(s) we will use to monitor our progress and success (or not)
  • How the metric is calculated (the exact formula or method)
  • The target value expected after the story is deployed
  • A baseline value, when the metric already exists
Including “Measurable” also reminds the team to implement any needed instrumentation to collect and report these metrics as part of the story.