User Stories: Managing User Stories in Scrum Framework

*Updated as per the latest Scrum Guide, Nov 2020. We have updated the course content as per the changes made in the latest version of the scrum Guide(TM)

This course discuss how user stories are handled in scrum framework. This course discuss topics including, User Story Mapping, Techniques foe Creating, Splitting/breaking down, Ordering, Estimating user stories, Acceptance Criteria, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, etc.

A user story is a requirement written in an end-user perspective. A user story describes functionality that will be valuable to either a user or purchaser of a system or software. These are written in the perspective of customer. It reflects what customer expect from or want to do with the product.

This course has some common modules/sessions with our other courses Agile Requirements: Managing Requirements in Scrum Framework and Scrum Product Owner: Agile Product Ownership with Scrum. And also a few topics from our scrum training.

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Topics covered are listed below.

User Story Basics

          Introduction

          User Stories

          Acceptance Criteria

          Definition of Ready

          Definition of Done

          Estimation

Managing User Stories

          User Story mapping

          Splitting user stories

          Ordering Backlog Items

          Release Planning

We will start with the basics. Then there will be a details discussion on user stories, acceptance criteria, definition of ready for a user story, definition of done for a user story etc.

Then there will be a detailed discussion on different methods of maintaining the user stories. We will discuss, user story mapping, different approaches for breaking down the epics or user stories, different methods used for prioritizing etc.