title: Should we use personas in user stories?
body: <p>The book <a href="https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0321205685" rel="nofollow noreferrer" rel="nofollow noreferrer">User Stories Applied</a> contains single page discussing Personas. The definition of persona from the book is:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>A persona is imaginary representation
    of a user role.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>It futher discuss definition of the persona:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Creating personas requires more than
    just adding a name to a user role. A
    persona should be described
    sufficiently that everyone on the team
    feels like they know the persona.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>It also recommends to find a photo on Internet or in magazine and use this photo for persona so that everybody can clearly imagine persona working with the application.</p>
  
  <p>Ok. All these ideas sound good. It can be fun to define personas to user roles but is it worth it? Is there any real or measurable quality or increased efficiency when using them?</p>
  
  <p>Do you have any good examples where personas really help the development team? Do you use personas in user stories?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:</strong></p>
  
  <p>I have found nice article about personas in <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd569755.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MSDN</a>.</p>