User Stories
Overview
Since agile projects are surrounded by uncertainty, requirements and priorities within project are subject to a high degree of change. Agile project teams utilize a unique and effective method to identify, capture and manage project requirements. User stories provide the team the tool to effectively adapt and deliver relatively quick incremental product value to product owners.
This course is designed to provide participants with the ability to work effectively with user stories. Students will participate in hands-on activities and facilitated discussion focused on key elements of user stories within the scrum framework of project management. Efforts during this course are specifically focused on the most effective creation, management and usage of user stories, including methods to improve scrum team estimating, planning and delivery of “done” features and products.
Who Should Take This Course
Audience
This course is suitable for business analysts, systems analysts, project team members and project managers currently using or transitioning to the agile methodology of project management and interested in increasing the effective implementation of user stories.
Prerequisites
Experience working in a project environment. Knowledge of agile principles, terms, and concepts. Knowledge and exposure to Agile Project Management concepts (desired).
Why You Should Take This Course
Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Facilitate team and product owner to develop user stories
- Create a definition of done for user stories
- Compare user stories, features and epics
- Effectively split features and epics into user stories
- Conduct user story workshops
- Write user stories for functional and non-functional features
- Apply the INVEST method to evaluate user stories
- Identify the “3 C’s” of user story elements
- Use relative sizing methods to estimate and assign story points to user stories
- Describe the process for using estimated user stories for a sprint
- Effectively slice compound and complex user stories.
Upon completion of the course, students can claim 14 Technical PDU’s from the Project Management Institute.