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Writing Effective User Stories Training

This course is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of Writing Effective User Stories. The material in this course is based on Mike Cohn's Book entitled User Stories Applied, and many of slides used in the presentation are licensed from Mountain Goat Software.

Note: This training course can be customized to your specific needs.

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About the Course  

 

This is a one-day course that covers the fundamental principles of how to capture and express requirements in the form of user stories.

A perfect complement to this course is a one-day facilitated session focused on writing user stories for your project.

What You Will Learn  

 

This course will include the following topics :

  • What are User Stories
  • Users and User Roles
  • Gathering User Stories
  • The six attributes of a good story and how to achieve them
  • A useful template for writing user stories
  • How much work to do up-front and how much to do just-in-time

Who Should Attend  

 

This course is equally suited for product owners, managers, programmers, testers, or anyone involved in defining or elaborating on the requirements for a project. Participants will be able to return to their jobs with specific recommendations and actionable practices they can perform to improve their requirements capturing.