Completed user stories - discard? archive? [closed]

Question

We are starting to use a Scrum process for development. We have a nice stack of user stories now . I'm wondering though, once a user story is complete, tested and deployed do you do anything else with it? We're using little index cards right now, I'd think it would be fine to just toss them in the trash can.

If you keep them, what do you do with them later?

Answer 1

Archive them for reference on future projects. They will be useful when you have to estimate story points. Often times, similar-sounding stories occur across projects.

Answer 2

Um - keep them and put them in the project file. CYA in all cases. You never know when a client will come back and ask you "why is this this way?", or "who decided that was how it was?". You can then pull out the user story and have backup.

Always keep everything like this until the warranty period has expired on your software... unless you want to be put in the position where you could be asked to "fix" something that was really a change for free.