Agile Requirements Bootcamp

Attend this 1-day workshop to experience a deep-dive and drill-down into agile requirements. You exit this class ready to execute on the gathering, processing and delivery of “groomed backlog” into the Scrum Product Backlog.

The 2-day Agile ASAP course or equivalent is required to attend this class.

Topics:

1. User Stories Defined
2. Why Stories
3. Techniques for gathering stories
4. Techniques for writing stories
5. Defining User roles and Personas
6. What Makes a Good Story?
7. Things to watch for: dependent stories
8. Things to watch for: unwilling customers
9. Things to watch for: stories that are too big
10. Things to watch for: stories that do not ‘make sense’
11. Applying stories to Scrum
    1. Estimating
    2. Testing
    3. Iteration and Release Planning
12. Exercise: Persona and User Story generation via Facilitated meeting (1 hour)
13. Exercise: User Story Mapping (1 Hour)
14. Views of the Requirements
    1. User story mapped view
    2. Product Backlog view
15. Backlog grooming workshop
    1. This segment is a PM exercise where we do actual work on real backlog.
       1. Gathering Stories
       2. Defining Stories
       3. Backlog grooming
       4. Estimating and Planning
       5. Sense-making and Sprint Planning
       6. Sprint Planning (mock meeting)
16. SUMMARY

You exit this class ready to execute on Product Backlog preparation as a team member, Product Owner, stakeholder, or Scrum Master. EVERYONE who touches the requirements belongs in this class.