"A user persona is a fictional character based on a common user or stakeholder of a product. Information is provided about the persona that helps development or marketing teams understand the perspective of potential customers or users of the products they develop. User stories are then in user-centric and persona-driven formats.
For example, if I am building healthcare software, I might write personas to represent the perspectives of nurses, doctors, administrators, billing specialists, social workers, accounting managers, etcetera.
My current team works with personas, and I use them to author and refine user stories. The personas were originally created by a user interaction design specialist, but I have added details to them over the years."
