Agile Certification: Crafting User Stories for Agile Excellence
Are you aspiring to enhance your skills in Agile methodologies and earn a valuable Agile certification? Look no further! Info Trek presents the ‘Crafting User Stories for Agile Excellence’ course, a dynamic 1-day, instructor-led program designed to equip you with the essential knowledge and techniques to create compelling user stories and build comprehensive product backlogs.
Unleashing the Power of Agile Certification
In this engaging workshop, you’ll delve into the intricacies of user stories, learning how to identify and develop them effectively. No prerequisites are needed, making it accessible for a diverse audience, including Product Owners, Business Analysts, Scrum Team Members, and Agile Enthusiasts. The course employs a variety of interactive methods such as group discussions, case studies, and hands-on computer exercises, ensuring an immersive and effective learning experience.
Elevate Your Career with Agile Expertise
Crafting User Stories for Agile Excellence not only provides you with valuable insights into Agile requirements gathering but also positions you as a proficient Agile practitioner. As you grasp the significance of product backlogs, personas, and the INVEST principle, you’ll gain a competitive edge in today’s fast-paced corporate landscape. This certification holds the potential to transform your career by aligning your skills with Agile best practices, making you an invaluable asset to any organization embracing Agile methodologies. Don’t miss this opportunity to embark on a transformative learning journey and boost your career with the coveted Agile certification.
Duration: 1 day; Instructor-led
The user Story workshop will enable all participants with what they need to identify and develop compelling user stories and comprehensive product backlogs. How do you create a user story containing all the key information, define acceptance tests, and map their current requirements process to an Agile approach? Use various lightweight techniques to identify and size a backlog of user stories and determine how to handle non-user components like business rules and non-functional requirements. This User Story training course is for those with a fundamental understanding and experience with Agile or Iterative development and the Scrum approach.
Audience
- Product Owners, Product Managers
- Business Owners, Stakeholders, Managers, Leaders
- Scrum Team Members
- Business Analysts, Tech/Team Leads, Programmers, Coders, Testers
- Agile Coaches
- Agile Team Member, Agile Enthusiasts
- And anyone who is interested in understanding how requirements evolve in agile ways of working.
Prerequisites
No pre-requisites
Methodology
This program will be conducted with interactive lectures, PowerPoint presentations, group discussions, case studies, hands-on computer exercises and some games.
Course Objectives
- Understand the common challenges with requirements gathering
- Impact of incorrect requirements
- Product Backlog and its contents
- Explore ways to illicit requirements
- What are User Stories?
- Creating shared understanding with User Stories
Outlines
Module 1: Introduction
- User stories vs. traditional requirement documents
- User stories as a way to express requirements
Module 2: User Roles and Personas
- Characteristics of an effective user representative
- What to avoid
Module 3: Crafting User Stories
- Including who, what, and why
- The importance of the “benefit to the user” in the story
- The 3 C’s process
- Introduction to the INVEST principle and how to use it
Module 4: Product Backlog Content
- Epic stories
- User stories
- Business rules
- Usability, Reliability, Performance, Supportability (BURPS)
- Non-functional stories and defects
Module 5: Evolution of User Stories
- Identification of Persona
- Personal Mapping
- Getting started with epics
- Splitting epics into stories
Module 6: Gathering Agile Requirements
- Lightweight techniques to eliminate waste and maximize productivity
Module 7: User Story Cadence
- When we gather them, prioritize, size, implement, test, and close them Contrast with Waterfall
