Agile Backlog Workshop with Epics, Features, and User Stories

The workshop will teach you how to write Epics, Features, and User Stories that effectively communicate the needs of your customers using a blend of lecture and group exercises. You will learn how to build a product backlog of Epic ideas, broken down into beneficial Features, and decomposed into small, valuable User Stories. You will bring your own work items and apply what you learn in a series of exercises that take you through creating your own Epics, Features, and User Stories.

Workshop Objectives

Understand Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Understand requirements hierarchy Epics, Features, and Stories
Learn User Story Concepts
- Identify best practices for writing User Stories
- Discuss how they are used in Agile
- Be aware of potential problems in writing and using them
Understand the difference between Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done

Learning Content

Agile Manifesto & principles, Scrum values
Minimum Viable Product
User Roles & Personas
Epics, Features, User Stories
Enablers
Business rules and non-functional requirements
Acceptance criteria
Bad Stories
Sources of User Stories
Story mapping
Tasks,
Definitions of Ready & Done

Target Audience

Those who actively participate in a project using Epics, Features and User Stories, including Business Owners, Product Owners and Product Managers.
People on the edges of the project (proxy customers, management, employees in related processes)