Course Summary
The User Stories Hack-a-thon training course is designed to explore the creation of user stories as a means of tracking project requirements.
The course begins by examining how to create and decompose user stories. Next, it demonstrates how to groom the product backlog. The course concludes by recognizing estimates using relative sizing.
Pre-Requisites: 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.
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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.
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Expert Practitioners
Industry experts with 15+ years of industry experience that bring their battle scars into the classroom.
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Experiential Learning
More coding than lecture, coupled with architectural and design discussions.
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Fully Customized
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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
- Solid product backlog from release planning stories
- User story template creation
- I.N.V.E.S.T. in good user stories
- Non-functional requirements handling
- Story-Writing Hack-a-thon
- Roles and Personas
- Create 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
- Poker planning
- Product backlog sizing
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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