User Story Workshop

Course Code: 1953

$1495

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Outline
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Overview

A lot of projects fail due to poor requirement gathering, inadequate planning and analysis. Traditional requirement documents often do not help gather complete requirements accurately, especially in the rapidly changing environments. This user story workshop discusses how to define and manage the requirements effectively. The workshop also demonstrates alternative ways of documenting requirements and managing changes. Using these, participants would be able to implement less ‘heavy’ processes in their projects that would benefit from quick changes.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 3 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 3 days

What You'll learn

Learn to adapt quickly and positively to rapidly changing business needs and priorities
Learn how to collaborate on requirements for a project
Align development to business needs to deliver business value rapidly
Explore the benefits of using Agile methods to communicate requirements
Understand the five levels of planning in Agile
Use Agile requirements as an effective basis for planning and testing
Understand the characteristics of a well-written Agile requirement
Learn how to plan frequent releases for customers to realize the benefits quickly
Learn the mapping techniques for identifying the stories of larger releases
Minimize risks of delivering ineffective solutions by gathering feedback frequently

Outline

Module 1: Agile overview

What is Agile?
Why Agile?
Agile vs. Waterfall

Module 2: Business analyst activities in Agile

Why a well-written story is beneficial
Analyst activities of Waterfall that translate to Agile
Differences when aligning to Agile
How the analyst role aligns with the Agile manifesto

Module 3: User personas

Understanding user personas
Using user personas inside a story
- Determining user experience
- Identifying roles

Module 4: User story overview

What is a user story
- Role, goal, benefit
- Acceptance criteria best practices
- Examples
INVEST overview
Other types of backlog items
- What is a spike?
- How to use them
- Example
Non-functional (tech debt)
- What is a non-functional requirement?
- How to use them
- Example
Defects
- Ways to manage defects
- Example

Module 5: Five levels of planning

Vision
Roadmap
Features
Epics
Product backlog
Prioritization techniques

Module 6: Hands-on user story writing workshop

Module 7: Building a comprehensive release plan and backlog

Process mapping
Story mapping

Module 8: Prep and supports of Sprints

Story writing sessions
Backlog grooming
Relative sizing
Definition of Ready
Story preparation of Kanban
Backlog prioritization
Release planning
Real world workshop

Prerequisites

There are no mandatory prerequisites for this course. However, completing the Foundation of Agile course prior to taking up this course would be beneficial.

Who Should Attend

The course is beneficial for all members of Agile teams, though they are the most valuable for Product Owners or members of the development teams, or professionals with a focus on grooming the product backlog. The course is highly recommended for –

Business analysts
Requirement analysts
Business systems analysts
Product Owners
Business customers
Users or partners
Quality assurance professionals
Systems testers
User acceptance testers
System/application analysts
Architects
Designers
Developers
Anyone who wishes to enhance their understanding and ability to author and elaborate on user stories