Duration:
15 hours (5 sessions, each 3 hours; minimum 1 session per week).
Audience:
Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Developers, UX Designers, Project Managers, and anyone involved in Agile product development.
Course Overview
What’s This Course About?
User stories are at the heart of Agile development, helping teams organize the ideation workshop in clear phases. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn to collaboratively ideate, write, refine, and prioritize user stories using Scrum best practices. By the end, you’ll be able to craft clear, actionable, and valuable user stories that drive successful Agile projects, by pinpointing end user roles core requirements.
Course Goals:
- Understand User Stories – Learn their different types structure, purpose, and role in Agile development, including user acceptance tests.
- Master Story Writing – End user Modeling, and Writing user stories to clearly capture and validate end user roles’ requirements.
- Prioritize with Impact – Use techniques like Kano Model and WSJF to prioritize effectively.
- Refine & Improve – Optimize end user role business value of the user stories through backlog refinement, and user story splitting patterns.
- Apply Agile Mindset – Develop a Scrum-focused approach to user story creation and management.
Learning Path
Session 1: Introduction to User Stories
- Understand user stories – What they are, why they matter, and how they fit into Scrum.
Session 2: Writing Effective User Stories
- Learn the INVEST criteria – Writing clear, independent, and testable stories.
Session 3: Backlog Refinement & Story Splitting
- Break down large stories – Techniques for refining and splitting complex user stories.
Session 4: Prioritization & Estimation Techniques
- Rank stories effectively – Using Kano model, WSJF, and Agile estimation techniques.
Session 5: Applying User Stories in Scrum
- Use stories in real projects – Practical exercises on user stories, acceptance criteria, and Sprint Planning.
Class Reference: CCS/SUSW
Form Updated on: 02/13/2025 (Version 1)
Last Modified on: 02/13/2025
Program Information:
This workshop incorporates the latest Scrum practices and is continuously updated to reflect real-world Agile development challenges.
