• How do I create my stories in the first place?
• How do I manage my analysis over the life of the project?
• How can I split up stories that are too complex to fit in an iteration?
• If I have many similar, but different stories, how do I make sure they are implemented in a similar way to avoid getting many special cases in my code?
• How does Agile analysis affect architecture?
• How do I coordinate the implementation of similar stories?
• How do I make sure I have all the stories I need?
• How can I ensure my stories are consistent with each other?

Agile analysis has brought about new challenges and new opportunities. Old-school techniques of heavy use-cases or significant up-front analysis no longer work effectively. But how can our requirements be managed effectively when many things are so unclear at the start of a project?

Agile Estimation and Analysis for Developers and Product Owners blends several technologies together in a breakthrough course that gives the tools the entire development team needs to uncover and manage the story definition/discovery process. Software development is most like product development. That is, much of it is about discovering what the customer wants and how to build it. Actually constructing the code is not the biggest problem.

This course focuses on uncovering and managing the customers’ needs of the product being built. It teaches how to discover the stories in an Agile manner. However, it goes beyond the process of merely pulling out stories as they are encountered. It also illustrates how to organize the stories so they can be more easily implemented in a consistent manner. Techniques on how to organize requirements to help insure consistent and complete information from your customers and/or subject matter experts (SMEs) are also presented.

This course also goes beyond the Agile mandate of prioritizing stories merely by customer value. It explains why the issues of risk mitigation and customer feedback opportunities must also be considered.

By bringing together project management, analysis, development, and QA issues to the role of requirements management in Agile projects, this course enables your staff to be more effective than standard Product Owner training available from other organizations.

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