Feb 5 [North] – Writing and Grooming User Stories (With an emphasis on splitting)

Where: Axosoft (Google Map)
13835 North Northsight Boulevard #205
Scottsdale, AZ 85260

Agenda:
6:00 Registration Food and Drink
6:25 Announcements
6:30 Begin the Meeting
8:00 Closing Messages and Announcements

Description:  Writing and Grooming User Stories
(With an emphasis on splitting)

User stories are part of an agile approach that helps shift the focus from writing about requirements to talking about outcomes. They are expected to be simple brief descriptions, written from the perspective of the user who desires the functionality.  But before a story can be recognized as "ready" and the implementation started, we need to ensure that it is “Sized Right”.  However, many user stories start out too large. "Splitting" is the art of breaking up a user story into 2 or more smaller ones, while retaining the independence of each user story, so it has measurable business value.

Join me Todd Sussman, as we discuss the problems that user stories were intended to solve, learn how to recognize high quality stories, as well as look at common patterns for decomposing larger ones.

Speaker Bio:  Todd Sussman

Todd Sussman, Escape Velocity Consulting and Nextiva, is an process improvment coach who specializes in agile and gamification. He is a Certified Scrum Professional and Professional Scrum Master with 18 years of experience delivering solutions in various industries as a developer, architect, scrum coach and serious game facilitator. Todd helps companies realize their full potential by creating and working with learning teams to deliver innovative, disruptive solutions.