Where & when
Seattle , WA
Thu, Jun 5 - Fri, Jun 6 '08
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Pricing
$1495/person
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Instructor
User Stories and Estimation in Agile Development
Abstract
- Create user stories that describe what the user really needs
- Manage user stories over the life of the project
- Combine or split up stories to fit in one iteration
- Make sure you have all the stories you need
- Ensure that user stories are consistent
- Learn to accurately estimate story development time
- Group stories to optimize iterations
Learn and Practice a Repeatable Process for Discovering and Managing Stories
This course focuses on uncovering and managing the customers’ true needs for the product you are building. Learn how to discover user stories 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.
Estimate Story Development Time and More
Go beyond the agile mandate of prioritizing stories merely by customer value. Learn to use 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.
Course Exercises
During this course you can apply what you have learned by participating in the following exercises:
- Create user stories from a high-level list of requirements
- Learn to use Planning poker to effectively create high level estimates of effort
- Analyze a problem domain to discern its high level concepts
Who Should Attend
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.
Prerequisites
Students should have attended the three-day Agile Practices Scrum Master Workshop or have equivalent training or on-the-job experience.
Agenda
| Class Schedule* | |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Registration (Day 1 only) |
| 8:30 am - 12:00 pm | Training |
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Training |
| *Schedule may vary |
Venue Location Info
- Courtyard Seattle Sea-Tac Area
16038 West Valley Highway
Tukwila, WA 98188- Map link
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