Effective User Stories and Product Backlog Management
Note: this course is customisable
Duration: 1-2 days
Topics Covered (sample)
- Defining your stakeholders and understanding their needs
- The Product Vision
- From themes to epics/features to user stories and spikes – Late Elaboration for Agility
- Defining Product Increments
- User stories and acceptance criteria with examples
- Techniques for splitting epics to stories
- The INVEST criteria for user stories
- Creating and refining the Product Backlog
- The 3 Amigos
- Prioritisation of user stories and other elements of the product backlog – defining value and risk
- Defining Product and Release scope – Minimal Marketable Feature Set
- Estimation and planning – story points, planning poker, empirical forecasting
- Workshop: 2 hour ‘Backlog Refinement’ on target in-house project or supplied example
Exercises will be used throughout the course
Who should attend: Product Managers, Product Owners, Project Managers, Business Analysts and Team Leads – those involved in defining and managing requirements, planning and maximising value delivery for the Scrum Team.