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Phillip Ingham
Do you want to be able to write effective User Stories, know how to use them and understand how and why they work? Do you want to be better able to collaborate and communicate with your users and stakeholders to build products that truly meet their needs and delight them? If so, our User Stories for Agile Teams training is for you.
In the User Stories for Agile Teams course, you’ll come away understanding User Stories in real depth and be able to put them to use immediately.
Click here to schedule a 15 minute call with trainer Tom Reynolds before the course. Iron out any questions or concerns you might have about the training, ensuring you’re fully prepared and confident to participate.
User Stories for Agile Teams – Course Availability
This course runs for one day and can be run in-person or live online.
Private Training
This training course is offered as a private course to teams and organisations and can be run on-site in person or in a live on-line setting. This course is not offered on a public schedule.
“The small, intimate team made discussions open and safe and Tom was brilliant at answering every question at each stage.”
Helen Gabler
“Highly professional process from the registration to the wrap up. Great expertise from the trainer.”
Esmeralda García
Why Choose The Agile Mindset
Our training has a depth and a power that inspires and changes you. Our trainers are among the most experienced in the world, with rich insights into the changing world of work, a passion for transforming teams, and deep experience using User Stories with Agile Teams in many different organisations and many different contexts. They are able to bring your training alive by revealing its true power – helping you unleash your own potential as well as the potential of those you work with.
In addition, you benefit from: –
- Courses that have been designed using accelerated learning techniques that enhance and speed up the learning process, helping you to learn more effectively and retain your knowledge for longer
- For virtual courses:
- Reduced class size (maximum of 12) for virtual courses to ensure our attendees have the highest quality learning experience possible
- Delivery of a virtual course that has been designed from the ground up for virtual delivery using best practice, tried and tested techniques to provide an engaging and compelling virtual experience
- Shorter training days, which are vitally important when training in a virtual manner, enhancing your learning experience and increase your knowledge retention
- For in-person classroom courses:
- Maximum class size of 20 to ensure our attendees have the highest quality learning experience possible
- Highly respected Certified Scrum Trainers with decades of experience delivering high-quality training and using User Stories in the real-world
- Trust Pilot rating of 4.9/5
User Stories for Agile Teams – Course Details
User Stories for Agile Teams is a highly interactive full-day course that takes participants through the rationale of User Stories, how to write good User Stories, and how to use them within the context of Agile ways of working.
You will learn how to
- Write effective User Stories – the most common method of populating Product Backlogs
- Identify User Personas
- Gather User Stories using a variety of techniques
- Write excellent, well-formed User Stories
- Split stories in a variety of ways so they are appropriately sized
- Increase the quality of deliveries with User Stories
- Control project scope with User Stories
- Avoid the common pitfalls with User Stories
Have more questions?
Click here to schedule a 15 minute call with trainer Tom Reynolds before the course. Iron out any questions or concerns you might have about the training, ensuring you’re fully prepared and confident to participate.
After attending the User Stories for Agile Teams course, you’ll come away understanding User Stories in real depth. You won’t just know how to use them, you’ll understand how and why they work – and how to apply them effectively. In other words, this course will equip you with the knowledge and experience to write and use genuinely effective User Stories
Participants will gain sufficient knowledge about User Stories to:
- Immediately put them into use with confidence on their projects
- Use User Stories effectively
- Be able to explain how they are used with Scrum and other Agile Frameworks
High-quality instruction from a highly experienced trainer with many years of experience in training User Stories and, very importantly, implementing User Stories in the real world
- Course materials and, for virtual courses, access to our Learning Management System and online content created during the course
- Certificate of completion
- 8 Scrum Education Units (SEU’s)
- It’s a communication problem
- What problems do User Stories address
- What are User Stories
- What a User Story is and isn’t
- The 3 C’s
- The structure of a User Story
- Why User Stories
- Drawbacks
- Identifying Roles
- User role modelling
- Refining roles
- Consolidating roles
- Personas
- Extreme characters
- Gathering User Stories
- Trawling for User Stories
- User interviews
- Questionnaires
- Observation
- The User Story writing workshop
- INVEST
- What is INVEST
- Applying INVEST to User Stories
- Adding Details to Stories
- Splitting User Stories
- Strategies to split User Stories
- Acceptance Criteria
- What are acceptance criteria
- Adding User Story details as acceptance criteria
- Using acceptance criteria to define scope
- Applying acceptance criteria to User Stories
- Stories in Relation to a Product Backlog
- Epics
- Themes
- The Product Backlog
- The Product Backlog iceberg
- DEEP
- Guidelines for good User Stories
- User Story smells
- Apply your Learning
- Write User Stories
- Write Acceptance Criteria
- Split User Stories
- Add details to User Stories
- Build a Product Backlog
This course is ideal for project teams, customers, business analysts, Product Owners and system users, or anyone who is required to write, use, or interact with User Stories.
Attending the course as a full team offers a real opportunity for the entire team to experience and learn how to write effective User Stories and be able to use them on their projects; it creates an excellent foundation for them to move forward.
There are no prerequisites for the User Stories for Agile Teams course; however, students are expected to complete the pre-course reading require.
Attendees will be required to complete the pre-course activities and reading before attending the User Stories for Agile Teams class.
There are no exams for this course. Attendance will provide 8 Scrum Education Units, and all delegates will receive a certificate of attendance.