Better User Stories - Professional

Welcome

Course Information

Course Calendar

Lesson 1: Introduction (6:31)

Lesson 2: Some Sample User Stories (5:12)

Lesson 3: Card, Conversation, Confirmation (6:22)

Lesson 4: Is a Template for User Stories Really Necessary? (7:46)

Lesson 5: Detail is Deliberately Deferred (3:51)

Lesson 6: Stories are Pointers to Requirements (4:16)

Module 1 Quiz

Lesson 7 (Bonus): How Stories Differ from 'System Shall' Statements (5:06)

Lesson 8 (Bonus): How Stories Differ From Use Cases (8:05)

Module 1 Worksheet

Module 1 Audio, Transcripts, & Slides

Lesson 1: Introduction to User Roles and Personas (3:37)

Lesson 2: User Roles - Context, Characteristics and Criteria (7:23)

Lesson 3: How to Do User Role Modeling (10:52)

Lesson 4: Documenting a User Role Model (7:59)

Module 2 Quiz: Lessons 1-4

Lesson 5: Creating Personas for High-Consideration Products (6:23)

Lesson 6: Attributes to Consider When Creating a Persona (7:49)

Lesson 7: Documenting a Persona (8:53)

Lesson 8: Systems and Developers as Users (5:03)

Lesson 9: Decorated User Roles (4:17)

Lesson 10: Writing User Stories for the Right User (5:53)

Module 2 Quiz: Lessons 5-10

Module 2 Worksheet

Module 2 Audio, Transcripts, Slides & Additional Materials

Lesson 1: Introduction to Story-Writing Workshops and Story Mapping (2:13)

Lesson 2: The Four Times to Write Stories (5:27)

Lesson 3: A Significant Objective Focuses the Scope of a Story-Writing Workshop (7:11)

Lesson 4: Story-Writing Workshop Attendees, Duration and Preparation (8:00)

Lesson 5: The Story-Writing Workshop Agenda (8:30)

Module 3 Quiz: Lessons 1-5

Lesson 6: Story Mapping (8:47)

Lesson 7: Going Deeper with Story Mapping (10:08)

Lesson 8: Making Decisions with a Story Map (10:16)

Module 3 Quiz: Lessons 6-8

Module 3 Worksheet

Lesson 9: Organizing Stories With a Goal-Story Hierarchy or a Mind Map [Bonus] (7:57)

Module 3 Audio, Transcripts, Slides & Additional Materials

Lesson 1: Introduction to Adding Detail (3:42)

Lesson 2: Progressive Refinement - Adding Detail over Time (8:38)

Lesson 3: Epics and Themes - Some Clear, Useful Definitions and Examples (9:23)

Lesson 4: Two Ways of Adding Detail to a Story (6:56)

Lesson 5: Why I Prefer Conditions of Satisfaction rather than Acceptance Criteria (2:50)

Lesson 6: How Much Detail Is Appropriate (5:48)

Lesson 7: Working with a Team That Wants too Much Detail (8:52)

Lesson 8: A Definition of Ready and Why Having One Could Be Dangerous (8:43)

Module 4 Quiz

Module 4 Worksheet

Module 4 Audio, Transcripts, & Slides

Lesson 1: Introduction to INVESTing in Good Stories (3:37)

Lesson 2: Independent (6:03)

Lesson 3: Negotiable (5:49)

Lesson 4: Valuable (6:29)

Lesson 5: Estimatable (4:15)

Lesson 6: Small or Sized Appropriately (2:50)

Lesson 7: Testable (4:06)

Module 5 Quiz

Module 5 Worksheet

Module 5 Audio, Transcripts and Sides

Lesson 1: Introduction to Complex and Compound Stories (7:22)

Lesson 2: The SPIDR Approach to Splitting Stories (3:50)

Lesson 3: S - Splitting Stories with Spikes (3:35)

Lesson 4: P - Splitting Stories along Paths (5:19)

Lesson 5: I - Splitting Stories by Interfaces (5:42)

Lesson 6: D - Splitting Stories by Data (8:08)

Module 6 Quiz: Lessons 1-6

Lesson 7: R - Splitting Stories by Rules (8:14)

Lesson 8: Tracer Bullets (6:37)

Lesson 9: Closed Stories (4:14)

Lesson 10: Three Things to Do when You Can’t Split a Story (4:11)

Module 6 Quiz: Lessons 7-10

Module 6 Worksheet & SPIDR Poster

Module 6 Audio, Transcripts and Sides

Lesson 1: Introduction to Overcoming Common Problems (3:18)

Lesson 2: Managing Dependencies Between Stories (6:41)

Lesson 3: Stories with Too Much Detail (5:51)

Lesson 4: Spending Too Much Time Splitting Stories (4:58)

Lesson 5: Stories Involving More than One Team (5:23)

Lesson 6: Stories that Are Really Tasks (5:37)

Module 7 Worksheet

Module 7 Quiz

Lesson 7: Managing the Need for a Requirements Document [Bonus] (6:34)

Module 7 Audio, Transcripts and Sides

Lesson 1: Introduction to Not Everything Needs to Be a User Story (6:12)

Lesson 2: Nonfunctional Requirements (5:17)

Lesson 3: Stories and Bugs (4:03)

Lesson 4: Features from Feature-Driven Development (8:35)

Lesson 5: Job Stories (7:11)

Lesson 6: Looking Further at Job Stories (7:54)

Module 8 Quiz

Module 8 Worksheet

Module 8 Audio, Transcripts and Sides

Lesson 1: Remembering the Purpose of User Stories (10:24)

Module 9 Audio, Transcript and Sides

How to Claim Your SEUs and PDUs

Bonus: A Walkthrough of Some Personas I Created

Coaching Q&A Call - 15 March 2017

Coaching Q&A Call - 15 February 2017