Learn how to elicit effective requirements for your Agile projects with hands-on exercises in this course.

Project failures are often due to poor requirements gathering, analysis and planning. Traditional requirements documents may not contain complete and accurate requirements due to rapidly changing business environments. Agile requirements gathering, by moving detailed requirements closer to implementation, allows for rapid response to change. This user story training course will show you how to define and manage these requirements effectively as well as demonstrate alternative ways of documenting requirements and managing changes. These alternatives can allow for a less "heavy" process in projects that can benefit from quick changes in direction.

Who Should Attend?

This course is beneficial to all members on an Agile team, but will add the most value for those in a Product Owner role or are a part of the development team and have focus on grooming the product backlog.

This course is perfect for:

Business Analysts, Requirements Analysts or Business Systems Analysts
Product Owners, Business customers, users or partners
QA Professionals, Systems Testers or User Acceptance Testers
Systems/Application Analysts, Architects, Designers or Developers
Anyone that wants to enhance their understanding and ability to author and elaborate on user stories

We can organize this training at your preferred date and location. Contact Us!

What You Will Learn

Learn how to adapt quickly and positively to rapidly changing business needs and priorities
Learn how to collaborate on requirements for a project
Align development to business needs to provide business value quickly
Learn the benefits of using Agile methods to communicate requirements
Understand the five levels of planning in Agile
Use agile requirements as an effective basis for planning and testing
Understand the characteristics of a well-written agile requirement
Understand how to plan frequent releases so that customers can recognize benefit quickly
Learn mapping techniques for identifying the stories of larger releases
Minimize risks of ineffective solutions by obtaining frequent feedback

Training Outline

Agile Overview

What is Agile
Why Agile
Agile versus Waterfall

Business Analyst activities in Agile

Why a well written story is beneficial
Analyst activities of Waterfall that translate to Agile
Differences when aligning to Agile
How the Analyst role aligns with the Agile Manifesto

User Personas

Understanding User Personas

Team Exercise: Teams will create User Personas to understand the concept and identify details that make them unique

Using User Personas inside a story
- Determining user experience
- Identifying roles

User Story Overview

What is a User Story
- Role, Goal, Benefit
- Acceptance Criteria best practices
- Examples

INVEST overview

Team Exercise: Teams will practice writing stories using the Roles identified from the User Persona exercise. As a group acceptance criteria will be written, simulating a backlog grooming session.

Other types of backlog items
- What is a spike?
- How to use them
- Example
Non-functional (tech debt)
- What is a non-functional requirement?
- How to use them
- Example
Defects
- Ways to manage defects
- Example

Team Exercise: Individually the group will write an example of a Spike, Non-Functional requirement and a Defect. Focusing on what makes them unique and how best to document the details for development.

5 Levels of Planning

Vision
Roadmap
Features

Team Exercise: Teams will create a list of features, focusing on the evolution of an application and ways in which to build upon a feature over time.

Epics

Team Exercise: Teams will create Epics for the features identified in the previous exercise, focusing on how to break down the work into valuable slices.

Product Backlog
Prioritization techniques

Hands on User Story Writing Workshop

Team Exercise: The group will critique stories that have been given to them, learning what to look for when grooming stories (size, unclear, dependencies).

Team Exercise: Teams will write stories that relate to the Epics written in the previous exercise. Focusing on the INVEST strategy of story writing and using group feedback to further refine.

Building a Comprehensive Release Plan and Backlog

Process Mapping
Story Mapping

Team Exercise: The group will be given a sample process map, they will break the process into stories that remain independent and valuable, even if the value varies.

Prep and Support of Sprints

Story Writing Sessions
Backlog Grooming
Relative Sizing
Definition of Ready
Story Preparation Kanban
Backlog Prioritization
Release Planning

Real World Workshop

Team Exercise: Individually, the group will get to focus on real world examples, getting feedback from the group intermittently, similar to a series of grooming sessions. Ideally bringing these stories back to their own projects.

Retrospective

Handling and Adjusting to Team Feedback
Educating Others

Why Choose Us

Experience live, interactive learning from the comfort of your home or office with Bilginç IT Academy's Online Instructor-Led Collaborating & Communicating Agile Requirements Training in Kuwait. Engage directly with expert trainers in a virtual environment that mirrors the energy and schedule of a physical classroom.

Live Sessions: Join scheduled classes with a live instructor and other delegates in real-time.
Interactive Experience: Engage in group activities, hands-on labs, and direct Q&A sessions with your trainer and peers.
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Immerse yourself in our most sought-after learning style for Collaborating & Communicating Agile Requirements Training in Kuwait. Our hand-picked classroom venues in Kuwait offer an invaluable human touch, providing a focused and interactive environment for professional growth.

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Collaborating & Communicating Agile Requirements Training in Kuwait

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