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 # Agile Story Management Web Site
+User stories are part of an agile approach that helps shift the focus from writing about requirements to talking about them. All agile user stories include a written sentence or two and, more importantly, a series of conversations about the desired functionality.
 
 Visit [ScrumDo.com](http://www.ScrumDo.com) to use it.