User Story Nuts and Bolts

According to the PMI’s Agile Practice Guide, a user story is “a description of deliverable value for a specific user. It is a promise for a conversation to clarify details.” User Stories prompt the conversation between the business representative (also known as the Product Owner) and the agile team. As the starting point for that conversation, the user story must be “ready” for that conversation. This course explores how to construct a quality user story, along with its acceptance criteria, so the conversation starts off on the right foot.

How You Will Benefit

If you and your agile team are struggling to write effective user stories and aren’t sure how creating detailed personas will help your project, then this course can help provide a solid foundation for these topics. Additionally, you will have an opportunity to practice using the INVEST guidelines and design effective acceptance criteria to accompany your user stories.

What You Will Learn

During this course, you will learn key concepts for crafting a quality user story. Learning objectives include:

• Learn how to write a quality user story using INVEST criteria.
• Explore and practice the role of user profiles and personas in “storytelling.”
• Understand how to identify and write acceptance criteria.

Who Should Attend

This course offering is intended for anyone seeking to better understand how to use user stories to enhance the development of product backlog items (PBI).

Format

Video-on-demand; includes 6-months digital access to all training materials.

Duration / PDU Value

PDUs: 3 CDUs: 3

Outline

• Course Introduction
• User Profiles and Personas
• User Stories
• Acceptance Criteria
• Conclusion