Course Summary
The User Stories Hack-a-thon training course explores creating user stories as a means of tracking project requirements. Far different from creating large documents to capture all requirements up front, moving to creating user stories may seem overwhelming and intimidating.
In this course, students will learn how to create user stories, decompose user stories, groom the product backlog, and estimate using relative sizing.
This course is about 50% lecture and 50% discussion/hands-on exercises. Experience working on Agile teams or prior Agile training is recommended prior to attending this course.
Purpose
Learn how to create user stories as a means of tracking project requirements.
Audience
Software developers needing to write user stories.
Skill Level
Style
Duration
2 Days
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- Productivity Objectives:
- Identify what the inputs are for user stories.
- Discover how to properly document user stories.
- Choose how to decompose and aggregate stories as needed.
- Describe grooming the product backlog.
- Explain relative sizing as a method for estimating.
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Real-World Content
Project-focused demos and labs using your tool stack and environment, not some canned "training room" lab.
Expert Practitioners
Industry experts with 15+ years of industry experience that bring their battle scars into the classroom.
Experiential Learning
More coding than lecture, coupled with architectural and design discussions.
Fully Customized
One-size-fits-all doesn't apply to training teams. That's where we come in!
What You'll Learn
In the User Stories Hack-a-thon training course, you'll learn:
- User Stories
- Requirements and the Product Backlog
- Epics, Features and Release Planning
- Building a Solid Product Backlog from Release Planning Stories
- Creating a User Story Template
- I.N.V.E.S.T in Good User Stories
- Handling Non-Functional Requirements
- Just Enough Elaboration
- Conducting a Story-Writing Hack-a-thon
- Roles and Personas
- Creating Acceptance Criteria / Defining “Done”
- Story Aggregation and Decomposition
- Spikes and Special Stories
- Grooming The Backlog
- Prioritization
- Looking Ahead
- Groom Continually
- Value Assessment
- Risk-Based Prioritization
- Estimation Basics
- Estimates vs. Commitment
- Relative Sizing
- Planning Poker
- Sizing the Product Backlog
Real-world content
Project-focused demos and labs using your tool stack and environment, not some canned "training room" lab.
Expert Practitioners
Industry experts that bring their battle scars into the classroom.
Experiential Learning
More coding than lecture, coupled with architectural and design discussions.
Fully Customized
One-size-fits-all doesn't apply to training teams. That's where we come in!
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