Writing Effective User Stories
Learn to align teams, clarify user needs and ensure the delivery of meaningful, value-driven solutions through effective user stories.
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Effective and high-quality user stories are essential for ensuring clear communication, alignment, and efficient development. Well-crafted user stories provide a shared understanding of customer needs, guiding teams to build valuable, user-centric solutions. They help break down complex requirements into manageable, iterative increments, enabling Agile teams to deliver continuous value. Good user stories follow the INVEST principle (Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable), ensuring they are well-defined, prioritized, and actionable.
Clear acceptance criteria further enhance transparency, testability, and collaboration, reducing ambiguity, rework, and delays while fostering a smooth, efficient development cycle. If you want to master writing effective user stories, and coach others to do the same, this course is for you.
What You Will Learn
Using a combination of interactive presentations, problem-solving exercises, innovation learning games, and team structured simulations, the experiential training enables participants to understand and master:
- Understand user stories
- Identify user roles and personas, and their needs
- Facilitate user story writing workshops
- Use story-mapping technique to plan and dependencies
- Writing clear, concise Acceptance Criteria
- Apply the INVEST principle to write high quality user stories
- Split Stories so you can complete them in a single sprint and delivery value
- Avoid common anti-patterns
What Will You Get
An immersive learning one day training facilitated by an experienced Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST) with 20+ years of real world experience
In person or Live, virtual, instructor led, interactive workshop.
Interactive group exercises in live discussion sessions in breakout rooms
100% live with no pre-recorded content.
Testimonials
I would like to thank Agilious for the training class. Theory and application to life situations were tied together for a deeper understanding of course material. I highly recommend taking this course offering and I will be looking for more courses taught by them.
This was an excellent course that made complicated concepts easy to digest. Additionally, my instructor provided real-world examples that helped me connect the dots. I would recommend this course to a colleague.
About Our Trainer
Manjit Singh has taught Scrum, Lean and Agile practices to hundreds of students including Scrum Masters, Product Owners, team members, PMs and executive leaders who support them. He brings 20 years’ experience practicing Lean and Agile as a team member, Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Enterprise Coach. He is the co-author of The Lean Playbook: Build A Lean Organization Yourself.
He is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST™), ICAgile Certified Expert in Agile Coaching (ICE-AC), and ICAgile Agile Team Facilitator. Manjit holds the following certifications: Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and Certified LeSS Practitioner (CLP).
