What you'll learn:
- Crafting Perfect User Stories: Master the art of creating user-centric, value-driven stories that resonate with both business and technical teams.
- Advanced Techniques: Dive deep into stakeholder analysis, INVEST criteria, and innovative story-splitting methods.
- Prioritization Mastery: Learn to make tough decisions with confidence using techniques like MoSCoW and the Kano Model.
- Comprehensive Acceptance Criteria: Explore five distinct methods for writing clear and effective acceptance criteria, transforming vague ideas into precise spec
- Acceptance Testing with Gherkin Scenarios: Develop foolproof acceptance tests using Gherkin syntax, ensuring thorough validation of user stories.
- AI-Powered User Stories: Harness the power of ChatGPT to supercharge your requirements gathering and test scenario generation.
Now including demos of AI for Business Analysts
Are you a business professional or technical expert tasked with creating and managing user stories? Do you find yourself at the crossroads of business needs and technical implementation, seeking ways to bridge the communication gap? This course is your key to mastering the art and science of user stories, whether you're crafting requirements from the business perspective or translating them into technical solutions. Elevate your skills in requirements management and communication in both traditional and agile environments. Become the linchpin in your organization's software development process.
This comprehensive course will guide you through every stage of requirements gathering and refinement, focusing on the latest techniques in user stories, stakeholder analysis, and acceptance testing. Whether you're a seasoned requirements expert, business analyst or just beginning, this course offers insights that will enhance your ability to drive project success.
Transform Your Skills, Transform Your Career
Imagine being the go-to expert who can effortlessly bridge the gap between business visionaries and technical teams. Picture yourself confidently crafting user stories that inspire developers and delight stakeholders. Envision a future where you're known for your ability to turn complex requirements into clear, actionable tasks that drive project success.
This isn't just a dream – it's the reality that awaits you with our cutting-edge course.
Master the User Story Paradigm: The Key to Effective Communication
User Stories are crucial for effective communication, but both users and agile teams must know how to work with them.
1. As a user, it’s your responsibility to express your needs clearly in a format developers can act on.
2. As a developer, understanding User Stories is essential to delivering digital solutions that support business objectives.
3. As a Product Owner or Business Analyst, balancing both perspectives ensures that your Agile team delivers exactly what the organization requires.
Create Clear and Actionable User Stories
Through engaging, real-world examples, you'll learn how to craft powerful user stories that connect business needs with technical execution, ensuring nothing is lost in translation. You'll master the art of identifying key stakeholders, designing clear, valuable user stories, and using advanced methods like INVEST to guarantee project success. With lessons on Gherkin and AI-assisted tools like ChatGPT, you'll learn to streamline your workflows, create actionable acceptance criteria, and eliminate ambiguity—leading to faster, more efficient development cycles.
Leverage AI and Gherkin for Enhanced Testing
Whether you're looking to refine your communication with developers, enhance project prioritization, or unlock the potential of AI in your user story process, this course gives you the skills to succeed. You'll leave with the confidence to lead any project, bridging the gap between business objectives and technical execution, and turning business vision into real-world success.
Enroll today and transform your potential into unparalleled expertise! Your future in requirements management excellence, applicable to both Agile and traditional methods, is just one click away. Don't wait – your next big career breakthrough is calling!
Not Quite Convinced Yet?
According to a recent survey, 69% of today’s top employers list effective communication as a required skill. User Stories are the primary mode of communication between the business and those who develop and deliver the digital solutions that are the soul of most organizations today.
You will benefit from this course if you:
want to get digital solutions that meet your needs.
want to make sure you understand what the business community is requesting.
want to reduce the friction between developers and the business community.
are invested in delivering digital solutions that provide business value.
want to learn simple techniques that will serve you well when you are in the hot seat.
What You Will Get
Fully updated course with tons of new content.
Now with demos of Ai writing Assistant ChatGPT-4 for writing Acceptance Criteria including Given-When-Then
Includes 252-page Student Handout in .pdf format for note-taking
"Intellimated" video lectures use visual representations to simplify complex concepts and associations.
Quizzes and assignments give you an opportunity to test your understanding of the presented material, reinforce learning, and increase retention.
Help from the authors to clarify open questions and provide additional information.
Lifetime access to the course including future updates.
30-day Moneyback guarantee backed by Udemy if you are not completely satisfied with the learning experience.
About the Instructor
Teaches 19 Udemy courses for Agile Business Analysis with over 95,000 students enrolled.
Champions lean and agile methods including the use of AI tools to meet communication challenges between business and IT communities.
Extensive YouTube Channel with 111 videos for 20K subscribers.
Authored 10 Business Analysis books covering tools and techniques for Agile and traditional software requirements.
Consultant to a multitude of Fortune 500 companies and governmental agencies.
Facilitated 100’s of User Story and Requirements Gathering Workshops for multi-million-dollar projects.
25+ years’ experience with instructor-led training for tens of thousands of students around the world.
Coach and mentor for aspiring business analysts.
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Enroll Today and Transform Your Potential into Unparalleled Expertise!
Sign up today and transform your approach to business requirements—because success starts with clarity, communication, and collaboration. You'll leave with the confidence to lead any project, turning business vision into real-world success, and ensuring that your user stories and acceptance criteria drive meaningful, high-quality results.
Still Not Convinced? Need more course details?
You will learn how to determine the best structure for your User Stories based on the needs of all audiences while ensuring delivery of business value to the author of each User Story.
You will understand the core components of a well-structured User Story and defend the purpose of each. In addition, I explain why defining business needs in User Story format is a significant factor in achieving effective communication between the business user community and developers.
To ensure that business community needs and wants are met, I will present techniques for capturing User Stories from the right mix of end users and other stakeholders. You can only get a reasonably complete set of User Stories by identifying Roles, Personas, and Stakeholders that your digital solution must support.
User Role Modeling, Stakeholder Identification, and Persona Development are three approaches that I have found most helpful in different situations. The role gives developers the power to clarify the intent behind the User Story which greatly increases the chances that the business community gets the solution it needs.
How to write a User Story is a simple, easy-to-learn skill. I will introduce and explain several ideas on how to make sure your User Stories are GREAT. Following the INVEST model will help make your User Stories Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable.
Those six criteria help you avoid a lot of problems, but each criterion can be challenging to achieve. For that reason, I introduce 3 methods that you can use to implement the INVEST model and add significant value to your User Stories.
As powerful as User Stories are, they are still susceptible to misunderstanding. You will learn 6 specific methods for identifying and removing the twin causes of miscommunication, namely ambiguity and subjectivity. In line with the Lean principle of waste reduction, you should wait until the last responsible moment to ensure that your User Stories are clear, concise, relevant, and at the right level of detail for developers.
The most important tool to reduce misunderstandings and avoid any ambiguity are Acceptance Criteria, aka Conditions of Satisfaction. They provide details of functionality that help the developers understand the User Story the way the originator intended.
You will learn how to use simple checklists, Business Rules, conditional statements, Functional Features, and Given-When-Then Statements to express Acceptance Criteria. These form the basis for the essential step of Acceptance Testing which is covered later in the course.
Lean and Agile do not change the need for sound analysis and decision making. What they change is the timing of those activities. You will learn what to do and when to do it given that the User Stories live and evolve throughout the process of delivering software that wows its users. You defend the need for Product Backlogs, Feasibility Analysis, and User Story Prioritization to ensure the evolution of the product delivers business value at every step of the way.
What the business community considers a simple request can be unbelievably complex for developers. Learn when and how to right-size your User Stories to ensure effective communication from start to finish. The meaning of the INVEST criteria require constant adjustment as the product evolves. You will learn 8 simple methods for splitting User Stories while ensuring the original intent is honored.
Finally, confirm that the delivered digital solution delivers what your organization needs to thrive. You will learn how to translate User Story Acceptance Criteria in any format to Acceptance Tests using Gherkin’s GIVEN-WHEN-THEN Scenarios. This revolutionary language facilitates manual testing and gives you the potential for using automated testing tools.
So, What Are You Waiting For?
Enroll now to move toward becoming the User Story Expert in your organization.
