User Story Template
Our User Story Templates are designed to keep product development centered on real user needs and objectives. In four different formats, these templates empower you to capture diverse requirements—whether you're planning a small feature, a complex epic, or a full program.
Each template makes it easy to communicate how users will interact with your product, aligning teams around meaningful, user-driven outcomes. Save time, reduce ambiguity, and make every sprint count!
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Inside the User Story Templates
The template pack contains four different types of user story templates in order of complexity. Regardless of your team’s methodology, there’s a user story template here that’s right for your next feature.
Simple User Story Template
The Simple User Story Template is perfect for capturing clear, straightforward tasks with a single objective, ideal for quick wins within a sprint. It enables teams to create focused, actionable stories that align with specific user needs and outcomes, ensuring clarity and efficiency in short development cycles. It contains:
Title, priority, and estimate
User story
Acceptance criteria
Epic User Story Template
The Epic User Story Template is crafted for high-level features or objectives that can be divided into multiple user stories. An epic represents a broader goal or feature set that might span several sprints or releases. By breaking an epic into smaller, manageable stories, teams can tackle complex functionality while keeping development aligned with a clear, overarching user objective. It contains:
Epic title and description
User stories (multiple)
Acceptance criteria for each user story
Thematic User Story Template
The Thematic User Story Template groups related stories under specific themes, allowing teams to focus on a common objective across multiple stories. Themes are at the top of the Agile hierarchy and can contain multiple epics. This template is ideal for managing and prioritizing work that drives progress within a specific focus area or feature set.
Elements:
Theme
User Story
Priority level
Estimate (# of story points)
Acceptance Criteria
Release (version, sprint, etc)
SAFe User Story Template
The SAFe User Story Template is tailored for teams using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). It ensures that user stories align with larger program-level objectives. It includes fields to evaluate value, risk, and priority, making it ideal for cross-functional teams that require a structured approach to balancing user needs with organizational goals.
Components:
User story and description
Hypothesis
Nonfunctional requirements
Acceptance criteria
User business value, cost of delay, time criticality, job size, risk reductions
Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) prioritization
Notes