Scrum User Story Writing Mastery, Agile Project Management

Increase your understanding of why there is a Product backlog in Agile, Scrum Project Management and how understanding this will help you write better user stories.

You will learn the difference between a Product Backlog and A Sprint Backlog.

Learn the answer to one of the most common questions once people know what a Product Backlog is, "What is a Healthy Product Backlog?".

Three C's is a clever way to remember the three major components of a good User Story.

A great acronym to take User Stories to a whole new level. This lecture will go over INVEST and how it will make any user story great!

This lecture goes over the three questions that every User Story should answer.

Here is a template anyone can use for any User Story to help make sure you answer the three questions "Who? What? Why?". It is structured language to make getting started writing user stories happen now.

Acceptance Criteria is crucial for any User Story. Here we go over what makes good Acceptance Criteria for User Stories.

Those dependencies can really slow things down. Here are some basic ways to manage dependencies when writing User Stories.

The smallest form of work in Scrum. We discuss what Tasks are, when to use them, and even when not to use them.

Let's stop for a moment and think about what the real goal of Estimation is.

A lot of people think of estimation as hours of effort only. Let's use this acronym to have three dimensions to any body of work as we try to estimate it.

You think we do not know how to count?! What is relative sizing? Why do we use Fibonacci numbers in our estimating?

There are good ways and not so good ways to do anything. Here is one of the best ways to do relative sizing to get the most out of it.

What are the final steps in getting a User Story ready? Lets discuss how to put a final stamp of approval on any user story.

One of three social agreements in Scrum. Definition of Ready will help any team be more "crisp" and "clear" on what ready work looks like to them.

Another social agreement in Scrum. This one really helps make sure we are not forgetting to add any part of the work that gets work to Done in our story writing and estimating process.

Now you know what Definition of Ready and Definition of Done are lets discuss how to use them on a team.

Let's discuss a commonly misunderstood Scrum event and how it affects good User Story writing.

One of the most asked questions out there. Let's discuss what Scrum says and what actually happens.

Answers to one of the most common questions around Backlog Refinement. I give you the ideal and practical approaches to this question.

Practical tips on how to increase the quality of Backlog Refinement. Three Amigos is a great way to get more out of this ceremony.

For those whom have teams that have at least one person not collocated with the rest of the team I share one of my favorite tools to use with the whole team.

Remember the Why of User Stories! Remember to never stop learning! Never stop improving! Be Agile Now!