Course Information
Course Overview
Learn to master User Story Writing as you implement Agile Project Management. Backlog Management, Estimation, DOR, DOD
User Story writing is a key Agile skill to develop and master to increase flow and value through any Agile team. A lot of issues are solved with well defined and written user stories. Teams will have less false starts, less starting and stopping during Sprints, and increased flow and predictability.
Here are the components and context needed to write GREAT User Stories that are not taught anywhere else.
This course includes:
- Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog
- What is a Healthy Backlog?
- Three C's
- INVEST
- Who Writes User Stories
- How to write Great Acceptance Criteria
- Dependency Management
- Writing Tasks, or Not
- Relative Estimation
- CUE
- Definition of Ready and Definition of Done
- Three Amigos
- Ideaboardz[dot]com Walkthrough
This course is about what the ideal Product Backlog is and how it benefits the whole team. The questions "What are the good parts of a user story?" and "What it should not be?" will be answered. A structured language template for user stories will be provided.
What is Relative Estimation? How it can be used to increase team predictability? And how not to use user story points in Agile Project Management? are all questions that will be answered too.
You will become familiar with Definition of Ready and Definition of Done as social agreements your teams will use to increase communication levels and collaborate more efficiently.
Last but not least this course will introduce you to me and the community I am building of Agile Practitioners whom want to constantly improve in all areas Agile.
Course Content
- 7 section(s)
- 27 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Vision of an Agile Product Backlog
- Section 3 How to Write User Stories
- Section 4 Relative Estimation of User Stories to Become More Predictable
- Section 5 Agile Team Social Agreements for Better User Story Writing
- Section 6 Backlog Refinement Event
- Section 7 Bonus
What You’ll Learn
- Understand the importance of Healthy Product Backlogs, Several approaches to writing user stories, Relative Estimating or Sizing, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, Difference between Sprint Backlog and Product Backlog
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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IIqbal Yaqub
Great course!!! Honest Instruction...felt like Dana was instructing me - in person...Awesome!!!!
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EErnad Besirevic
theory only, no practical tips or examples (excepting ideaboardz topic), only few details to such a complex topic as an estimation
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NNicola Chen Luke
explanation of concepts unclear. would be useful to utilize visuals and examples to explain concepts
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RRahul Mahajan
The course does not really provide examples of writing good user stories. It should have laid out real world examples of user stories. Then it should have provided some exercises on writing good user stories. It's explanation of using Done and Ready in writing user stories was unclear and confusing.