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User Stories – Part 2

So Who Writes a User Story?

Since Scrum Masters should be knowledgeable in all things dealing with the scrum processes, they can be good at limiting the scope of a user story so that it doesn’t include too much for the development team to handle. Therefore, a collaborative method is best for creating good user stories.

How Do You Create a Good User Story?

Writing user stories is often not hard. However, writing good user stories can be. User stories should tell a story and should help facilitate the development of the product without being too complex or simple. Taken together, they create the product backlog which serves as the requirement document needed for the project.

A good user story should INVEST:

Independent. A good user story should be independent of other user stories. The more independent user stories are from one another, the better and easier it is to change things down the line.  While this is not always possible, often splitting or combining them will solve the problem.

Negotiable. This means that the user story should allow for some discussion later. Things should be able to be negotiable and flexible in nature. Putting in too much detail at the onset will make discussion harder later on.

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What is this course?

This ‘Master of Agile – Agile Scrum Developer With 59 Seconds Agile (Video Training Course)’ provides an in-depth understanding of the Agile Scrum Developer roles and responsibilities

You will explore the Agile Scrum project life-cycle, including how an Agile User Story is created, to how we know when it is ‘done’

This course is aimed at those with or without prior knowledge and experience of the Agile values and principles

During this course you will learn the tools needed to succeed as an Agile Scrum Developer

What will you learn?

You will gain an in-depth understanding of the Agile Scrum Developer roles and responsibilities, and you will be able to

  • Fully understand the role of the Agile Scrum Developer
  • Understand the roles involved in an Agile project
  • Create an effective Product Backlog
  • Effectively participate in Scrum Meetings such as the Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review and Retrospective
  • Identify the roles involves in the Scrum Team

What topics are covered within this course

You will cover the following topics during this course:

  1. An Introduction to Agile Project Management (Developer)
  2. The 12 Agile Principles (Developer)
  3. Introduction to Scrum (Developer)
  4. Scrum Project Roles (Developer)
  5. The Agile Project Life-cycle (Developer)
  6. Acceptance Criteria and the Prioritised Product Backlog (Developer)
  7. Initiating an Agile Project (Developer)
  8. Forming the Scrum Team (Developer)
  9. Epics and Personas (Developer)
  10. User Stories and Tasks (Developer)
  11. Implementation of Scrum (Developer)
  12. The Daily Scrum (Developer)
  13. The Product Backlog (Developer)
  14. Scrum Charts (Developer)
  15. Review and Retrospective (Developer)
  16. Validating a Sprint (Developer)
  17. Retrospective Sprint (Developer)
  18. Releasing the Product (Developer)
  19. The Communication Plan (Developer)
  20. Formal Business Sign-off (Developer)

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