Team Writing Own Sprint Stories: Coding Parallel

I started an initiative in 2021 was to have the team start writing their own sprint stories - the series starts here

I had close calls when I wrote all of the team’s stories for a sprint myself. I was lucky, at the same time, realize I am not the best person for this.

Starting to get the team to write their own stories seems silly:

I write the story, then write the code to solve the story, then say, “I’m done”??

Basically, yes.

Is there a parallel in programming? Yes - test driven development!

In test driven development, one would write the test first THEN the code for the tests.

Having the team write their own stories for a sprint is analagous to writing their own tests for their code. Stories are a higher level of abstraction in the scope of work.

I found the team to be an execution engine