Best of “As a developer, I want…” student user stories, raw and unfiltered

Over on Twitter, the ever amazing and amusing time sink, @AdamPridmore, @KevlinHenney, and @JensColdewey are discussing the merit of software developers as stakeholders in user stories.

Despair not! I’ve got the goods. From my Scrum student projects (I run those day-in, day-out), here is the classic one:

As a developer, I want to learn Java to be able to program and earn a top grade.

I looked through the last few feature archives (the place where stories go to rest) from my student projects. Here are some fine exemplars of developer user stories. Have fun!

As a team member in team 1 I want to have a communication channel to the team so that I can contact my co-students with questions or news about the project.
As a team member in team 1, I want to have this planning document initialized so that Max stops bugging us about it.
As a developer, I want to be able to write tests for the backend project in order to generate trust in my work
As a Product owner I want to create a concept to ensure quality so I can rely on the product.
As a developer, I have to take the example of Hannes and deploy it, to prepare the set up of the project
As a team member in team 1, I want to have a documentation of all our Materials, that we use.
As a software developer in team 1, I want to define the general Structure of our Software so that I know what Technologies we will need to finish the task.
As stakeholder, I want to be able to visit the Github page of this project in order to get some information about it
As a stakeholder I want to get an overview over the architecture and the used technology stack of the project.
As a stakeholder, I want to access an running instance of the latest release of the AdminWebApp project in order to view the progress
Als Entwickler möchte ich, dass die Entwicklungsumgebung aufgesetzt ist
As a developer, I want to gain knowledge on the RASA Core so I can use it for my daily tasks.
As a developer I want to create a system architecture so I can structure the functionality of the program.
As a developer, I want to have the possibilty to easily add tests to ensure the build quality.
As a release manager, I want to have tests to verify everything is working before doing a release.
As a developer, I want to have complete CI toolchain
Als Entwickler informiere ich mich über Gradle, um es nutzen zu können
As software developers, we need to finalize on technologies for the stack
As a developer I have to adapt the Docker Image, to set up the project
Als Entwickler möchte ich, dass der Technologie-Stack geklärt ist
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