Writing user stories for internal technical tasks

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Published on 2009-11-10T10:50:26Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 20:13 UTC
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I am attempting to manage my projects a little better so I am looking at attempting to apply some of (eventually all) the features of scrum.

Looking at user stories specifically the high level format seems to be:

As a User I can Feature Description

or

Artifact is Doing Something

How would I write "Upgrade the Database"?

Is it simply Upgrade the Database?

I think I am being thrown off as there is no specific actor/customer and that the customer is the IT department.

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