Advanced Agile User Stories

Introduction

Slicing agile user stories down to fit into sprints is a key component of agile. User stories are intended to be small, and at the same time they should provide just enough and just in time requirements. Without the correct level of acceptance criteria, agile teams may find themselves building things fast, but not necessarily building the right things. Teams often struggle with these agile concepts and ways of identifying the necessary requirements while still adhering to lean documentation.

This class is intended for an agile team to improve their user stories relating to prioritization, estimation, splitting stories, organizing, and making sure that they are refined and ready for the development sprints. This includes breaking them down from epics to features to stories and eliciting the acceptance criteria.

Objectives

At the end of this course students will be able to:

• Provide practical tools and techniques to ensure your user stories meet the characteristics of INVEST
• Utilize the core component analysis approach to ensure that a cohesive set of user stories exist
• Take user stories from their raw state to refine them into a ready state
• Understand the capturing of acceptance criteria; examples and scenarios
• Identify how to triage change requests and determine where they fit in the backlog
• Review and create traceability of stories to their features and to their initiative or epic to ensure that the context of the project is defined
• Define and assign business value to prioritize and help manage minimal viable product discussions

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites to attend this course.

Course Materials

Each student will receive a copy of the course documentation prepared by Netmind.

Methodology

Engaging and interactive course. Our instructors teach all course materials using the demonstrative method; the participants learn new concepts through exercises and real application practices.

Participants should bring their initiative or epic to break down into user stories, or they can use a case study provided.

Certification

There isn’t an official certification associated with this course. However, students will earn 14 credit hours for their attendance.

Accreditation

A certificate of attendance will be issued to students who attend the course for at least 75% of the duration.

Course Outline