Writing effective epics and user stories

Duration : 1 day

This training provides you with the knowledge and know-how to quickly develop your software specifications using validation techniques with the customer and industry best practices.

It will also help you write your requirements in the form of workshops. Therefore, each participant can immediately put their knowledge into practice in the framework of a project for his company or one suggested by the trainer.

Audience

Functional analysts, business analysts, product owners, domain experts, or any developer involved in development.

Prerequisites

Good computer skills.

Objectives

This training aims to improve the drafting of requirements (or expression of needs) in object processes (unified and agile) software development as well as identify and plan requirements using use cases and scenarios (through use case diagrams) and their agile counterparts: Epics and User Stories.

Teaching method

Presentations - Exercises - Case study

Contents

This one-day training covers the following topics:

• Initial description of a project
• Complementary techniques
• Modeling of use cases/epics
• Categorization of needs and definition of priorities
• Effective description of the role of an actor and the functionality of a use case/epic and a scenario/user story
• Fundamental use cases, preconditions, postconditions, scenarios, and streams of events
• Suggested template for writing- Examples of use case and scenario formats
• Checklist for writing effectively
• Exercises/solutions and case studies (including the project you have selected)