Better User Stories with a Story-Writing Workshop
Write User Stories That Deliver Value
In two days, learn the fundamentals for writing consistent stories, and then apply these skills to your own backlog with AI-supported, interactive guidance.
- Write clear, consistent stories together.
- Save time refining and splitting.
- Practice on your own backlog for long-term results.
What You'll Be Able to Do
Write and refine user, job, and technical stories with just enough detail.
Use story mapping, splitting, and acceptance criteria to strengthen your backlog.
Confidently work with stakeholders to uncover and capture real needs.
Why Take Better User Stories + Story-Writing Workshop?
Practicing the user stories techniques on your own backlog is what makes the skills from this course and workshop stick. This course gives teams advanced techniques for crafting effective stories, followed by a workshop to apply them in real time. You’ll leave with better stories, a strong backlog, and the insight needed to keep improving.
A Unique, Interactive Learning Experience
Team Home is a collaboration platform that we designed for our courses. It is optimized for live, online training. Participants benefit by collaborating in ways beyond what is possible with generic whiteboard software such as Mural or Miro. Instructors can observe activity across all rooms, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of exercise debriefs.
Upcoming Public Training
Course Includes:
Course Outline
Common User Story Problems
Story-Writing Workshops
- Four Times to Write Stories
- Focus on a Single, Significant Objective
- Agenda and Participants
Backlog Refinement
- How Much Should Be Known and When
- Adding Detail to Stories
- Disagreements after a Story Is Done
- The Problems with Too Much Detail
- Sub-Stories and Acceptance Criteria
- The Full Lifecycle of a Story
Job and Tech Stories
- When Job Stories Are Appropriate
- Differences Between Job and User Stories
- Technical Stories
Story Mapping
- Common Story Map Problems
- Sub Maps Improve Readability
- Creating a Story Map
- Roadmaps
Splitting Stories
- The Goal in Splitting Stories
- SPIDR
Non-Functional Requirements and Bugs
- Non-functionals and the Definition of Done
- Bugs
Our Instructor
Mountain Goat has handpicked instructors that share our training values. These are people with deep experience, who are leading teams with agile today and can give you real-world answers about what does and doesn’t work.
Mike Cohn
With 20+ years of agile training experience, Mike has honed a talent for explaining agile concepts with clear illustrations and real-life examples. Participants enjoy his passion for teaching the agile methodologies in a relatable and digestible way.
Read more...Mike is CEO of Mountain Goat Software, and one of the industry’s most well-respected Certified Scrum Trainers. He is the author of User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, Agile Estimating and Planning, and Succeeding with Agile. He is a co-founder and former board member of the Scrum Alliance, and a co-founder of the non-profit Agile Alliance, home of the Agile Manifesto.
Scrum Certifications include: CSM, CST, CSPO, A-CSM, CSP-SM, CSP-PO
Got a Question?
What happens when you contact us?
- We’ll get back to you in within a day.
- Answer your training questions and discuss any custom needs.
- Recommend the best agile training path for your teams and goals.
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