User Story Masterclass- Your Agile Guide to User Stories

User Story Masterclass: Your Agile Guide to User Stories, available at $119.99, has an average rating of 4.48, with 64 lectures, 7 quizzes, based on 10092 reviews, and has 40304 subscribers.

You will learn about Learn how to write clear and concise User Stories and Acceptance Criteria for both Agile and non-Agile projects Learn various techniques to split User Stories into bite-sized pieces so they can be completed efficiently Master the use of INVEST to increase the effectiveness of your User Stories Explore the use of User Roles and Personas to bring your User Stories to life Learn how to create User Story Maps to visualize the user needs and plan for product releases Explore fun, interactive, and highly effective lessons and activities from three best-selling instructors This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone who wants to gain a deeper and practical understanding of User Stories and Acceptance Criteria or Current Agile team members looking to deepen their understanding of the User Stories and best practices or Those interested in working within an Agile team – such as aspiring Business Analysts, Project Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Developers, Quality Assurance, and similar. or Current non-Agile team members whose organization is considering the move to utilize user perspective requirements in their projects It is particularly useful for Anyone who wants to gain a deeper and practical understanding of User Stories and Acceptance Criteria or Current Agile team members looking to deepen their understanding of the User Stories and best practices or Those interested in working within an Agile team – such as aspiring Business Analysts, Project Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Developers, Quality Assurance, and similar. or Current non-Agile team members whose organization is considering the move to utilize user perspective requirements in their projects.

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Summary

Title: User Story Masterclass: Your Agile Guide to User Stories

Price: $119.99

Average Rating: 4.48

Number of Lectures: 64

Number of Quizzes: 7

Number of Published Lectures: 64

Number of Published Quizzes: 7

Number of Curriculum Items: 71

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 71

Original Price: $174.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Learn how to write clear and concise User Stories and Acceptance Criteria for both Agile and non-Agile projects

Learn various techniques to split User Stories into bite-sized pieces so they can be completed efficiently

Master the use of INVEST to increase the effectiveness of your User Stories

Explore the use of User Roles and Personas to bring your User Stories to life

Learn how to create User Story Maps to visualize the user needs and plan for product releases

Explore fun, interactive, and highly effective lessons and activities from three best-selling instructors

Who Should Attend

Anyone who wants to gain a deeper and practical understanding of User Stories and Acceptance Criteria

Current Agile team members looking to deepen their understanding of the User Stories and best practices

Those interested in working within an Agile team – such as aspiring Business Analysts, Project Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Developers, Quality Assurance, and similar.

Current non-Agile team members whose organization is considering the move to utilize user perspective requirements in their projects

Target Audiences

Anyone who wants to gain a deeper and practical understanding of User Stories and Acceptance Criteria

Current Agile team members looking to deepen their understanding of the User Stories and best practices

Those interested in working within an Agile team – such as aspiring Business Analysts, Project Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Developers, Quality Assurance, and similar.

Current non-Agile team members whose organization is considering the move to utilize user perspective requirements in their projects

Looking to get ECBA?, CCBA?, or CBAP? certified or recertified? – This course qualifies for 3 PD Hours/CDUs!

ENHANCE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY AND PROJECT SUCCESS BY PUTTING YOUR CUSTOMER’S NEED FRONT AND CENTER WITH POWERFUL AGILE USER STORIES.

Understanding the needs of users is one of the key components of any project. But there are some choices in how you gather those needs and how you document them. One very popular and trending technique, especially for Agile projects, is to utilize User Stories.

A User Story is a short, simple description of a feature told from the perspective of the end user. And while these stories are short, they are very impactful. In fact, those one to two sentences provide the context for a series of conversations to fully define the desired functionality.

This course is designed to take you from novice to User Story expert. We’ll break down all of the best practices including User Story format, writing Acceptance Criteria, handling common challenges, splitting User Stories, User Story Mapping, and much more.

Whether you have worked with User Stories for years or you’ve never heard of them until now, this is the perfect course for you.

What’s included in the course?

– High-Quality Video Lecturesbreak down everything you need to know to become an expert in writing, splitting, and mapping User Stories and how to write straight-forward Acceptance Criteria

– Downloadable Handoutshelp you to enhance your understanding and retention of the key concepts

– Quizzes and Activitiesvalidate your learning and help to point out areas that should be reviewed for full comprehension

– 1-on-1 Supportmeans that any confusion or questions you have can be addressed and cleared up easily (no more frantically googling trying to figure out what your course instructor means).

– Lifetime Access with NO Expirationso you can learn at your own pace, and come back at any time you feel unsure or are in need of a refresher

Let’s hear from some students that have already taken this course:

“Very straight forward and jam-packed with useful information with regards to user stories! Examples, videos, and layout make this course that much more worth it.” – Diego

“Great course! Content was told a good pace and was easy to understand. The real world examples also added an extra depth to different topics, giving a lot of the definitions, discussions, and descriptions context.” – Zachary

Haven’t made up your mind yet?

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This course comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee!That means, if you aren’t completely satisfied with your purchase, I’ll give you a refund – no questions asked!

Let’s hear from some more students:

“I am making a career transition to becoming a scrum master. I’ve heard of user stories but never knew what they were all about. This course is great for beginners like or anyone who has an interest. The instructors do a wonderful job of breaking the concepts down, and providing examples to tie everything together.” – Romier

“Amazing course again from the ba guide team. High Quality audios and videos i would recommend this course for anyone wants to know more about user stories” – Abdirahman

By the end of this course, you will have a deep practical understanding of exactly what User Stories are and how they can be used effectively to generate happy customers!

Enroll today and we look forward to seeing you in the classroom!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome to the Course!

Lecture 1: Introduction to the course

Lecture 2: User Stories are not just for Agile

Lecture 3: Meet your instructors + Important Links

Lecture 4: Course Resources – for your convenience

Chapter 2: Recap of Agile

Lecture 1: How the Agile Manifesto applies to User Stories

Lecture 2: How the Agile Principles applies to User Stories

Lecture 3: Udemy Review Prompt

Lecture 4: DOWNLOAD: Agile Values and Principles Resource

Chapter 3: Introducing User Stories

Lecture 1: What are User Stories and why are they used?

Lecture 2: User Story format

Lecture 3: Lets Discuss: Who writes user stories and when are they written?

Lecture 4: 3 Cs for writing user stories

Lecture 5: ACTIVITY – Write your first User Stories

Lecture 6: Difference between requirements and user stories

Lecture 7: Difference between use cases and user stories

Lecture 8: ACTIVITY – Use cases, user story, and requirements worksheet

Lecture 9: User roles

Lecture 10: User personas

Lecture 11: ACTIVITY – User Roles and Persona activity

Lecture 12: ACTIVITY – Iterating on User Stories with new Roles and Personas

Lecture 13: Lets Discuss: User Stories

Chapter 4: Acceptance Criteria

Lecture 1: Understanding Acceptance Criteria

Lecture 2: Writing Acceptance Criteria

Lecture 3: Who writes Acceptance Criteria and when are they written?

Lecture 4: Acceptance Criteria best practices

Lecture 5: ACTIVITY – Adding acceptance criteria to your user stories

Chapter 5: Write Better Stories with INVEST

Lecture 1: INVEST explained

Lecture 2: Lets Discuss: INVEST Criteria

Chapter 6: Non-User Stories

Lecture 1: Understanding Spikes

Lecture 2: Understanding Infrastructure and Technical stories

Chapter 7: Estimating

Lecture 1: General concept of estimating

Lecture 2: Understanding the Fibonacci estimation technique

Chapter 8: Splitting User Stories

Lecture 1: Introducing the concept of splitting

Lecture 2: Why split user stories?

Lecture 3: Splitting with Simplicity

Lecture 4: Splitting with Workflow

Lecture 5: Splitting with CRUD

Lecture 6: Splitting with Entry Method

Lecture 7: Splitting with Spikes

Lecture 8: Splitting Wrap Up

Lecture 9: DOWNLOAD – User story splitting resource

Lecture 10: ACTIVITY – User Story Splitting activity

Lecture 11: ANSWER KEY – User Story Splitting activity

Chapter 9: Common Challenges

Lecture 1: Providing the who and the why

Lecture 2: Handling bugs and defects

Lecture 3: Dealing with dependencies

Lecture 4: Changing user stories mid-sprint

Lecture 5: Challenges using Agile estimation

Chapter 10: User Story Mapping

Lecture 1: What are Story Maps?

Lecture 2: Why are Story Maps used?

Lecture 3: Creating a Story Map

Lecture 4: Walking through the creation of a Story Map

Lecture 5: Using Story Maps to Conduct Release Planning

Lecture 6: ACTIVITY: User Story Mapping Activity

Chapter 11: User Story – Final Activity

Lecture 1: User Story Final Activity Introduction

Lecture 2: STAGE 1 – Review the Scenario

Lecture 3: STAGE 2 – Create User Stories

Lecture 4: STAGE 3 – Review Groups

Lecture 5: STAGE 3 (cont) – Review Group 1

Lecture 6: STAGE 3 (cont) – Review Group 2

Lecture 7: STAGE 3 (cont) – Review Group Lessons Learned

Lecture 8: STAGE 4 – Update and Iterate User Stories

Lecture 9: STAGE 5 – Analyze and Reflect

Chapter 12: Wrapping things up

Lecture 1: Course conclusion + Bonus lecture

Instructors

The BA Guide | Jeremy Aschenbrenner
Business Analysis Trainer, Best Selling Instructor

Vivek & Pabitra Khattri
Coach & Instructor @ The Agile Coach

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 42 votes

2 stars: 107 votes

3 stars: 987 votes

4 stars: 4038 votes

5 stars: 4918 votes

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