Lean Agile Vision and Effective User Story Writing Workshop

This is not your traditional requirements gathering course! This course focuses on how to effectively and efficiently help users build their vision using creative visual modeling and powerful engaging techniques.
Projects start with their requirements. How those requirements are documented or expressed has a tremendous influence on the rest of the project. A great way to build software that meets real users’ real needs and gets the project off on the right foot is to begin with user stories.
This hands-on workshop provides an in-depth understanding of user stories within an agile context through both knowledge sharing and practical exercises. We will explore the lifecycle of a story, from how it is created to how we know it is ‘done’. It is aimed at those with or without prior knowledge and/or experience of Agile.  
User stories are simple, clear, brief descriptions of functionality told from the perspective of a user. User stories in agile and Scrum development can be useful to either a user of the software or the customer of the software. These user stories can then become the product backlog of an agile or Scrum project.
The technique of expressing requirements as user stories is one of the most broadly applicable techniques introduced by the agile processes; and user stories can also be an effective approach on all time-constrained projects.
This workshop provides us with the knowledge and tools needed to identify and write effective and helpful user stories. We’ll learn the six attributes all good stories must exhibit and guidelines for writing a better user story. The workshop explores how user role modeling can help when gathering a project's initial stories. During this hands-on workshop, all participants will have the opportunity to practice identifying user roles and writing stories on a case study.
You will learn by practicing how to use fun facilitation activities to gather the “breadth” of user requirements up front and catch

On Friday July 21, 2017 at