Effective User Stories for Agenda

It’s a communication problem

Agile Requirements What user stories are

Card, conversation, confirmation
Some examples
Projects start with their requirements. How those requirements are documented or expressed has a Adding detail
tremendous influence on the rest of the project. Capturing those requirements and making them clear to The product backlog iceberg
all concerned is much easier with a technique called User Stories. Though the technique emerged from Augmenting user stories
the agile processes, writing user stories is effective for all time-constrained projects, whether Agile or
not. Users and user roles
Proxy bias
In this seminar, you will learn how to identify and write good user stories. You’ll discover the six attributes User roles
all good stories must exhibit and be introduced to five additional guidelines for writing better stories. User role modeling
Together, we will explore how to employ user role modeling when gathering a project’s initial stories.
Personas
During this hands-on seminar we will use multiple case studies to practice identifying user roles and Extreme characters
writing stories. Gathering stories
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You Will Learn Observation
User interviews
• The six attributes of a good story and how to achieve them Story-writing workshops
• A useful template for writing user stories
INVEST in good stories
• Practical techniques for gathering user stories
• How much work to do up-front and how much to do just-in-time Independent
Negotiable
Valuable

About the Instructor Estimatable

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Martin Kearns is one of the first three coaches to be certified in the world. Martin works Testable
with Renewtek, an Australian information technology company which uses leading edge Additional guidelines
tools and technologies. He consistently uses the Scrum Framework in conjunction with
A tools interlude
Agile methodologies where appropriate.
Martin joined Renewtek in 2005 where he is responsible for designing training courses Created case studies
around Scrum/Agile as well as leading the promotion of Agile principles within Renewtek Creating and selecting case studies
and to their diverse client base. He offers consulting services to organisations on the Writing the product backlogs
creation and implementation of Agile delivery. Lessons learned
Martin conducts formal Scrum training to introduce concepts and core principles in a What user stories are not
unique and creative way. He can also play a continuing mentoring role to assist with Use cases
MOUNTAIN GOAT follow-up implementation and Agile Retrospectives at key project milestones. IEEE 830 Software Requirements Specs
S O F T W A R E
Why user stories
Why not user stories

For more information contact Renewtek

(+61) 3 9670 7790 (office) and (+61) 3 9670 6663 (fax) sales@renewtek.com