[bladelessninja2]

A user story is good exercise for less technical people to grasp what developers need to know before starting development:

- they are easy to understand as everyone is familiar with concept of telling stories

- they enforce a way of thinking about the feature, e.g.: "when click X, then Y happens", which is easily translatable to workflows

So I wouldn't be so eager to discard them completely - they are very useful tool, although, not the only tool you should use.