Hi Matthew! Here is my answer to "what are titles needed for.
I love how easy you guys make it to enter user stories and I like having my backlog items as user stories. but the user stories are difficult to scan. Some of that is our fault as we're new to user stories but we spend a lot of time in our stand-ups looking at the posted stories and asking "which one is that?"
Having a title (which we're currently putting in the description field) would remove the mental conversion of "As a content manager I want to have social media links on the home page so I can promote our social media participation" to "Add social media links to footer".
Of course our particular use case could be solved by tasks too since we could save the plain language for the tasks and leave the stories more general.
I love how easy you guys make it to enter user stories and I like having my backlog items as user stories. but the user stories are difficult to scan. Some of that is our fault as we're new to user stories but we spend a lot of time in our stand-ups looking at the posted stories and asking "which one is that?"
Having a title (which we're currently putting in the description field) would remove the mental conversion of "As a content manager I want to have social media links on the home page so I can promote our social media participation" to "Add social media links to footer".
Of course our particular use case could be solved by tasks too since we could save the plain language for the tasks and leave the stories more general.