
Discover why this course teaches end-user centered user stories to drive agile success, align business with IT, and define value through acceptance criteria.
Meet the instructor who evolved from a mainframe programmer to an agile transformation specialist, sharing two decades of Scrum expertise, training, and practical insights into agile and the Scrum framework.
Explore the agile foundations through the four value pillars of the Agile Manifesto—individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change.
Explore agile principles 1–6 that drive customer value through early delivery, fail fast learn fast, welcome changes, frequent releases, daily collaboration, motivated teams, and face-to-face communication.
Explore why we use agile and how it replaces fixed targets with ongoing adaptation. Observe how inspection points drive trajectory changes to align with customer needs as the world shifts.
Learn to craft complete user stories by defining the what and why, driving team conversation, and building acceptance criteria and confirmation through examples like two-factor authentication and reservation cancellations.
Explore defining acceptance criteria for user stories using two-factor authentication examples, and learn vertical slicing of epics into self-contained, testable pieces delivered in 2–3 days.
Learn how to structure user stories using the iceberg metaphor, from themes and epics to fine-grained stories, with acceptance criteria and the INVEST principles for agile delivery.
Split user stories into small, testable pieces to fit a sprint, measure velocity, enable user acceptance testing, and gain deeper product understanding through ongoing slicing.
Set a measurable sprint goal that aligns with the project vision, chosen by the product owner in sprint planning, and kept in the sprint backlog for flexible adjustment.
Anyone on the team can add user stories to the product backlog, using a parking lot for new items, with the product owner guiding priority, acceptance criteria, and estimation.
Welcome to “The Agile User Story Playbook” The Most Powerful Communication Mechanism For Agile Product Creation
ATTENTION PRODUCT CREATORS: Learn, Understand & Experience The Creation of Agile User Stories, And Success Is YOURS!
The User Story!
There is a “Tidal Wave” today that is sweeping our Globe. It began as a ripple in the late 1980s and has progressed into this enormous wave that is sweeping over the “Product Development Arena.” Products all the way from Automobiles to Government Policy creation to the delivery of massive Software Systems. To many of us who have been involved in this arena for over 20 years, we label it as the “Agile Revolution!”
And the key framework, the most used framework, and the most successful framework in the Agile “space,” is Scrum. Scrum, is the framework that came from the work of the co-founders, Jeff Sutherland (senior) and Ken Schwaber (Scrum org).
And the key method of understanding the needs of our stakeholders within an Agile Framework such as Scrum, and creating a product to fulfill those needs, is a tool that we call “User Stories.” This course is all about how to successfully create those User Stories.
Why You Should Take This Masterclass!
Recently, one of the top Global Information Technology oversight organizations, Forrester, said this:
“The organizational structures that got us to where we are today, are failing us — they are not the structures that will take us forward. Times have changed, and our organizations must adapt to catch up and begin to keep pace with business change”
To be at the forefront of working with our organizations to adapt and catch up and begin to keep pace with the changing world around us in the area of product development, you need to know what we are teaching in this course. You then need to take that knowledge and understanding and move it through your Agile teams, no matter what area of the organization they are located and working within.
Our intent here is that when you finish our course, you will be an “expert” or SME (Subject Matter Expert) in the development of User Stories.
For you to achieve this, in this course we teach you:
What Scrum is (short high-level refresher)
Why User Stories came into existence.
What User Stories Are.
User Story Theory.
The User Story Structure.
Techniques in arriving at and developing User Stories.
User Story Mapping
User Story Splitting.
How to use User Stories in your project burndowns.
The difference between User Stories and traditional requirements.
The difference between User Stories and Use Cases.
How to use “Spikes” to determine User Stories.
Defect handling with User Stories.
And So Much More ..........
All of this is based on where Agile Development is in early 2023.
To sum this all up, at the end of this course, you will have all the knowledge and understanding to not only work with teams using User Stories but also teach and mentor others on the successful use of User Stories.
Therefore, make sure you take the step and click on purchasing this course. You will not be disappointed.
YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE, BUT EVERYTHING TO GAIN!
Professor Ed …. “We Are Agile!”