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Create user stories that describe what the user really needs |
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Manage user stories over the life of the project |
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Make sure you have all the stories you need |
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Drive your agile analysis from business value |
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Ensure that user stories are consistent |
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Learn to accurately estimate story development time |
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Group stories to optimize iterations |
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Create high-level release plans |
This course focuses on uncovering and managing the customers’ true needs for the product you are building. Learn how to focus on maximizing business value delivered in an agile development process. Going beyond the practice of merely pulling out stories as they are encountered, you will learn how to organize stories so they can be more easily implemented in a consistent manner. Practice techniques on how to organize agile requirements to help ensure consistent and complete information from your customers and subject experts.
Go beyond the beginner's rule of prioritizing stories merely by customer value. Learn to use the risk mitigation and customer feedback to organize stories into iterations. Estimate development time for different stories and the project as a whole. Use the project knowledge generated during development to dynamically refine early estimates and keep customers and management informed about progress.
During this course you can apply what you have learned by participating in the following exercises:
• Create a project vision to guide your team
• Create a release plan based on maximizing return to your customers
• Create user stories from a high-level list of requirments
• Learn to use planning "poker" to create high-level estimates of effort
• Understand the importance of acceptance testing in estimation
This course is for product owners, business analysts, developers, QA testers, Scrum Masters, team leaders, users, and anyone involved in discovering and documenting user needs and requirements within an agile development environment. Those investigating agile development practices also will benefit from this course.
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