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Professional Development Workshop Series
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Workshop Schedule/Fee
This is a one day workshop.

Individual Fee*
: $650 p/p
Date:
Jun 14
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: Toronto
Venue:Commerce Court, Bay st.
Instructor: David Vanmere

*Special discount for organizations that register 3
or more participants.
*Special discount for Gov. employees.

Phone: 1-888-890-7317
Email: info@plannowtech.com
How to Define Business Requirements Through Agile User Stories
Workshop Overview
Every software development project starts with gathering
business requirements. How these requirements are
documented or expressed have a tremendous influence on the
rest of the project. Requirements are referred to as user stories
in the Agile environment. The concept of user stories originated
in the Agile world, but they are also extremely useful even if you
are not planning to use an Agile process. Defining business
requirements as user stories is one of the most widely
applicable Agile techniques.

Learning Objectives
In this workshop, we will look at how to identify and write
effective requirements through user stories. We will discuss
how user role modeling will help you in identifying contextual
user stories.
During this hands-on workshop you will have the opportunity to
practice identifying user roles, eliciting and writing business
requirements (user stories) on a case study.

Discussion Topics
Some of the topics that will be presented include:
  • What the foundation of a good agile requirement (user
    story) is
  • How to use a standard template for writing user stories
  • How to identify and utilize actors or personas to fully
    unearth and understand business processes and
  • user stories
  • How to collect user stories successfully from new and
    unfamiliar business domains
  • How to leverage various other elicitation techniques for
    gathering user stories
  • How to ensure the right participants are selected for the
    story collection meeting
  • How to develop a user story map that will provide a
    holistic picture of the application to be built
  • How to visualize story relationships through a user story
    map
  • How to conduct basic release planning via a user story
    map
  • How to split user stories through a user story map
  • How to prioritize user stories through a story map
  • How much to engage customers before and after the
    user stories collection meeting
Who Should Participate
Product owners, business analysts, testers, project managers,
product managers, scrumMasters and developers. No prior Agile
knowledge is required.
Basic knowledge of software engineering is required.

Workshop Format
The format will consist of lectures to present requirements collection
concepts, followed by discussions, role-play and hands-on, real-world
case studies that will allow participants to implement the concepts they
were just introduced to.  At the end of the workshop the participants will
have the knowledge to successfully apply the techniques they have learnt
in their organization.

What Participants Will Receive
  • Copy of Presentation Slides
  • Product Backlog Template
  • Release Planning Template
  • Sprint Backlog & Task BoardTemplate  
  • Personalized Certificate of Completion
About the Instructor

David Vanmere has been teaching agility
since early 2002. He is an avid extreme
programmer and Kanban practitioner.

He mixes XP, Scrum and Kanban, and
provides you the best mix of these Agile
flavours. He is also well-versed in object
orientation, UML and use cases. David
has been teaching and training several
software teams throughout the years and
is also very active in the academic world.
He holds a Masters degree in Computer
Science.
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