Description

The User Story—Live, Online Workshop is a three-hour workshop for Business Analysts, Product Owners, and anyone who will be involved with the writing of User Stories. The course focuses on how to gather Agile requirements and document them as User Stories. This is a very hands-on course and features many exercises that solidify key course concepts. Whenever possible real-world examples are brought in from the course participants work in order to jumpstart their next Agile project.

A. Prerequisites

None

B. Who Should Attend

• Business Analysts
• Product Owners
• Anyone who will be involved in the writing of User Stories

C. Learning Objectives

• As a class participant, I want to explore product vision statements, so that I can understand how to apply them to the story writing process.
• As a class participant, I want to demonstrate how to model roles and personas, so that I can ensure my stories are targeting the most valuable use cases.
• As a class participant, I want to explore ways to refine a product backlog, so that I can identify the appropriate detail in my stories.
• As a class participant, I want to define the concept of User Stories, so that I can ensure the team is collecting the appropriate information.
• As a class participant, I want to explain key elements of a good user story, so that I can create a better product backlog.
• As a class participant, I want to learn techniques to split stories into smaller ones, so that I can create stories that are completed in a short period of time.

D. Benefits

• Learn to capture stakeholder business needs
• Produce effective User Stories
• Create better product backlogs
• Learn the method of story mapping for better User Stories

E. Takeaways

• Thorough understanding of User Stories and their benefits
• A new outlook on the way you write and use User Stories with practical examples of good and bad User Stories