User Story Workshop – June 3rd, 2023

User Story Workshop – June 3rd, 2023

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.

$399.00

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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