Introduction
How the Agile Manifesto applies to User Stories
How the Agile Principles applies to User Stories
Validate your understanding of Agile
DOWNLOAD: Agile Values and Principles Resource
What are User Stories and why are they used?
User Story format
Let's Discuss: Who writes user stories and when are they written?
3 C's for writing user stories
ACTIVITY - Write your first User Stories
Difference between requirements and user stories
Difference between Use Cases and user stories
ACTIVITY - Use cases, user story, and requirements worksheet
User roles
User Personas
ACTIVITY - User Roles and Persona activity
ACTIVITY - Iterating on User Stories with new Roles and Personas
Let's Discuss: User Stories
Quiz 2: Validate your understanding of the User Story basics
Understanding Acceptance Criteria
Writing Acceptance Criteria
Who writes Acceptance Criteria and when are they written?
Acceptance Criteria best practices
ACTIVITY - Adding acceptance criteria to your user stories
Quiz 3: Validate your understanding of Acceptance Criteria
INVEST explained
Let's Discuss: INVEST Criteria
Quiz 4: Validate your understanding of INVEST
General concept of estimating
Understanding the Fibonacci estimation technique
Introducing the concept of splitting
Why split user stories?
Splitting with Simplicity
Splitting with Workflow
Splitting with CRUD
Splitting with Entry Method
Splitting with Spikes
Splitting Wrap Up
DOWNLOAD - User story splitting resource
Quiz 5: Validate your understanding of user story splitting
Providing the who and the why
Handling bugs and defects
Dealing with dependencies
Changing user stories mid-sprint
Challenges using Agile estimation
Quiz 6: Validate your understanding of common challenges
What are Story Maps?
Why are Story Maps used?
Creating a Story Map
Walking through the creation of a Story Map
Using Story Maps to Conduct Release Planning
ACTIVITY: User Story Mapping Activity
Quiz 7: Validate your understanding of User Story Maps
