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Agile Requirements Modeling - Personas, User Stories and Use Cases
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This workshop training course teaches students how to perform business analysis for agile projects. The course includes best practices for eliciting, analyzing, specifying and verifying requirements. Students learn how to model users, write user stories, and derive use cases. For evolving requirements, this course shows how to perform just-in-time elaboration of features, and how to incorporate late changes during agile iterations.
Code R20
Discipline Requirements Engineering
Duration 2 days
Course Information
Audience | At Course Completion | Prerequisites | Course Materials | Course Outline | Pricing | TAKE THIS TRAINING

Audience

  Software Process Architects   QA/Test Managers   Development Managers
  Business Analysts     QA User Testers     Software Developers
  Project Managers   X   QA Code Testers   X   User Education Specialists
               

at course completion

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

»   Recognize stakeholder patterns »   Review and update user stories
»   Define vision and scope   »   Estimate user stories
»   Elicit and write user stories   »   Negotiate at the Sprint Planning meeting
»   Analyze and prioritize   »   Incorporate changes
»   Create user proxies   »   Derive use cases

prerequisites

»   Intermediate knowledge of software engineering

course materials

A comprehensive workbook with knowledge material, examples, case studies, lab exercises, and references.

course outline
Module 1: Introduction to Requirements Engineering
»   Problems, objectives, requirements and specifications
»   Classification of requirement types
»   Business requirements
»   User requirements
»   Software requirements
Module 2: Agile Projects
»   The requirements development pipeline in agile projects
»   Integration of requirements in the SDLC
»   Dealing with unknown needs
»   Tailoring the process for Agile environments
»   Traceability and metrics
Module 3: Project Scope and Business Requirements
»   Defining the business context
»   Breaking the scope into logical sets of capabilities
»   Assigning and agreeing upon stakeholder roles
»   Building the business case
»   Establishing business areas, goals and requirements
»   Framing requirements to support business strategy and customer justification
Module 4: Writing User Stories
»   Identification of sources
»   Identification of stakeholders
»   User stories
»   User profiles
»   The voice of the customer
Module 5: Elaboration and Estimating of User Stories
»   Requirements prioritization and scrubbing
»   Improving requirements through prototyping
»   Bridging from existing to new functionality using a gap analysis
»   Estimating User Stories
Module 6: Creating Use Cases
»   Use case development
»   Requirements for multiple audiences
»   Document layout and structure
»   Non-functional requirements
Module 7: Validation and Verification
»   Review sessions and fit criteria
»   Dealing with dependencies and inconsistencies
»   Verification through test case design
»   Negotiating conflicting requirements
Module 8: Requirements Management
»   Storage and privileges
»   Linking and accessing requirements
»   Version control and addendums
»   Making requirements traceable
Module 9: Requirements Breakdown
»   From requirements to feature breakdowns
»   Scrum Sprint Planning Meeting
»   Organization of spec items
»   Committing features to releases
Module 10: Change Management
»   Dealing with new ideas
»   Sources of requirements changes
»   Controlling and enabling change
»   Mechanisms to support triaging
Module 11: Tools Support
»   Available tools
»   Evaluation criteria
»   Case: Atlassian Confluence wiki

Certificate

Participants receive an industry recognized SoftO2 Education Certificate upon completion of the course.

pricing

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