Writing Effective User Stories
Effective user stories are the cornerstone of successful agile projects.
In this intensive half-day course, you will explore what a user story is, learn how to write effective user stories, and experience how to manage your requirements in an agile fashion.

The course is an interactive, hands-on workshop that utilizes a combination of presentation, discussion, and hands-on exercises to both explain and demonstrate the core aspects of working with user stories.

Audience
Product Owners, Business Analysts, Product Managers, Developers, and Testers - in short, anyone who works or will be working with requirements on agile projects.

Trainer
Robbie May - Senior Business Analyst from Clarus.

Objectives

  • Find out what user stories are and how they can help you
  • Get a useful template for writing user stories
  • Learn the six attributes of a good user story
  • Learn to write acceptance tests for user stories
  • Deal with non-functional requirements
  • Find out how to manage and plan user stories
  • Receive guidelines for estimating user stories
Prior knowledge of Scrum and Agile methods is required. You should have attended the Certified ScrumMaster class and/or have actively worked on a Scrum team and have a good understanding of the basics. At a minimum attendees should read the Scrum Primer.

Duration: 4 hours

Cost: NZ$500 per person excl GST