Mike Lyons explains the standard user-story template and how to write its parts: identify the actor ("As a ..."), the desired action ("I want ..."), and the reason/value ("so that ..."). Emphasis is on focusing the story on the value delivered to the consumer of the story (user, system, or other stakeholder).
We're going to start with the description of the user story. Now, this is written in a certain format as a I want so that seems a little strange, but bear with me as a user of the product, maybe as a system, whatever the whoever is going to consume this story, whatever is going to consume the story as a I want to do something, I want to see something, I want to display something, I want to secure something. What is it you want to do? And then so that why why do you want to do that? And really focusing in on what's the value that will be released in this user story so that.
