Agenda

You will learn

• What User Stories are and what they are not
• The six attributes of a good story and how to achieve them
• A useful template for writing user stories
• Practical techniques for gathering user stories
• How much work to do up-front and how much to do just-in-time

Course outline

1. It's a communication problem
2. What User Stories are
   • Card, conversation, confirmation
   • Some examples
   • Adding detail
   • Augmenting user stories
3. User Role modeling
   • Purpose
   • Brainstorming
   • Consolidating
   • Personas
   • Extreme characters
4. Gathering Stories
   • Stories, themes and epics
   • Story-writing workshops
   • Eliciting through questions
5. INVEST in good User Stories
   • Independent
   • Negotiable
   • Valuable
   • Estimatable
   • Sized appropriately
   • Testable
   • Additional guidelines
6. Splitting User Stories
   • Reasons for splitting stories
   • Story splitting strategies
7. Additional Guidelines
   • Tracer bullets
   • Closed stories
   • Non-functionals
   • Single-user stories
   • Contract development specs
8. Case Studies
9. What User Stories are not
   • Use cases
   • IEEE 830 software requirements specs
10. Electronic tools

Course Price

All prices are inclusive of VAT.

 

Standard fee

 Individual participant: Php 25,000

 Group of 3 or 4: Php 23,750/person

 Group of 5+: Php 21,250/person

 

Early bird fee (must be paid in full 3 weeks prior to course start)

 Individual participant: Php 22,500

 Group of 3 or 4: Php 21,375/person

 Group of 5+: Php 19,125/person