Course Description

Project failures are often due to poor requirements gathering, analysis and planning. Traditional requirements documents may not contain complete and accurate requirements due to rapidly changing business environments. Agile requirements gathering, by moving detailed requirements closer to implementation, allows for rapid response to change. This "User Story Workshop" will show you how to define and manage these requirements effectively as well as demonstrate alternative ways of documenting requirements and managing changes. These alternatives can allow for a less "heavy" process in projects that can benefit from quick changes in direction.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to adapt quickly and positively to rapidly changing business needs and priorities

• Learn how to collaborate on requirements for a project

• Align development to business needs to provide business value quickly

• Learn the benefits of using Agile methods to communicate requirements

• Understand the five levels of planning in Agile

• Use agile requirements as an effective basis for planning and testing

• Understand the characteristics of a well-written agile requirement

• Understand how to plan frequent releases so that customers can recognize benefit quickly

• Learn mapping techniques for identifying the stories of larger releases

• Minimize risks of ineffective solutions by obtaining frequent feedback