In this class you will be given proven methods to create, maintain, and manage your requirements using user stories as part of an agile scrum team. I know you will get value from this class, as it gives you a full introduction to the concept of agile user stories for managing product requirements. I then walk you step by step through everything involved in managing requirements using user stories, including writing, combining, and splitting complex user stories. Following this, I give you a complete overview of epics and themes and how they can be used to capture and group complex requirements in any team or business. Along the way I give you plenty of examples and best practices for working with user stories within agile scrum. In this class you will learn: What user stories are and why they are so powerful for capturing requirements in complex projects How to feel confident in writing user stories for any project How to understand what requirements specs are and why they are less flexible than a product backlog built with agile user stories How to explain the three R’s rule, acceptance criteria, the INVEST principle, the three Cs principle, and edge cases and how they will make you a better user story writer or agile practitioner How and when to split and amalgamate stories Techniques to help you to split user stories when working in the real world
