Learn User Story management skills from a career Agile professional – Matt Beam.

Master the art of writing user stories that accurately capture user needs and drive successful agile development. Our course provides hands-on training in crafting well-written user stories, creating effective acceptance criteria, and refining stories throughout the development process. You’ll gain valuable skills and insights that will help you deliver high-quality software products that meet user needs and exceed expectations.

This class will run 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Central Time.

Value Proposition

Master the art of writing user stories that accurately capture user needs and drive successful agile development. Our course provides hands-on training in crafting well-written user stories, creating effective acceptance criteria, and refining stories throughout the development process. You'll gain valuable skills and insights that will help you deliver high-quality software products that meet user needs and exceed expectations.

Features

• Hands-on training in crafting user stories that accurately capture user needs.
• In-depth discussions on the role of user personas and acceptance criteria in agile development
• Interactive exercises to help you break down user stories into smaller, manageable tasks
• Techniques for estimating and prioritizing user stories based on user needs and business value
• Best practices for refining user stories throughout the development process, using feedback to continuously improve your work

Benefits

• Ability to write well-crafted user stories that capture user needs accurately, leading to higher user satisfaction.
• Improved collaboration and communication with stakeholders, including development teams, product owners, and users
• Increased efficiency and productivity in agile development, resulting in faster time-to-market for software products
• Better alignment of user needs with business goals, resulting in higher customer retention and increased revenue
• Competitive advantage in the marketplace, as the ability to write effective user stories is a highly valued skill in the tech industry.

Learning Objectives

• Define and explain the importance of user stories and how they relate to agile development.
• Create effective user personas and use them to develop user stories that accurately capture user needs.
• Write user stories using the proper format and acceptance criteria, and refine them throughout the development process.
• Estimate and prioritize user stories based on user needs and business value.
• Capture non-user-facing work and non-functional requirements in technical stories, and understand how to handle bugs and defects.
• Create and decompose epics and themes, and understand how they relate to user stories.
• Estimate user stories using story points and planning poker, and refine stories using feedback and vertical slicing techniques.
• Choose and manage metrics for epics, and validate value using feedback loops.
• Create a story map, and use it for road-mapping and release planning.
• Collaborate effectively with stakeholders, including development teams, product owners, and users, through improved communication and alignment with business goals.

Class Agenda

• Introduction to Agile User Stories
• User Persona and User Needs
• Writing User Stories
• Acceptance Criteria
• Technical Stories, Non-Functional Requirements, Spikes
• Epics and Themes
• Estimating User Stories
• Refining User Stories
• Metrics
• Story Mapping