Agile Requirements – Writing User Stories and AI Prompting Workshop

Agile Requirements – Writing User Stories and AI Prompting Workshop Introduction

Writing User Stories Workshop will demonstrate how to manage, write, and communicate requirements in an Agile Environment.  Participants learn to collaborate and identify business needs and communicate those needs through User Stories.   The course will discuss AI Prompting Frameworks to help generate User Stories. Group activities will be performed to apply the learned knowledge in real time with the ability to use their own project

Agile Requirements – Writing User Stories and AI Prompting Workshop Introduction Objectives

Upon completion, you’ll gain:

• Overview of Agile and understand common terms for Agile Teams
• Determine Business Analysis Activities in Agile
• Understand how to Identify and Define User Personas
• Write User Stories
• Understand all aspects of Product Backlog Items
  • Solution Requirements
  • Spikes
  • Technical Debt
• Understand Epics, Features and Tasks
• Apply User Story Analysis
• Use AI Prompting Frameworks to generate User Stories and Validate against Business Requirements

Audience

• This course is intended for  new and experienced Agile teams to improve how to communicate and write user stories to capture requirements.  This would include Product Owners, Stakeholders, Business Analysts, Testers and any person who wants to write user stories.

Agile Requirements – Writing User Stories and AI Prompting Workshop Introduction Outline

Agile Overview

• Agile Mindset
• Agile Principles

Determine Business Analysis Activities in Agile

• The Business Analysts role in Waterfall vs. Agile in eliciting requirements
• Identify Stakeholder Requirements and how they align to the business strategy
• Identify Solution Requirements (Functional and Nonfunctional) and Transition Requirements

Understand how to Identify and Define User Personas

• What is a User Persona?
• Examples of a User Persona
• Where do they fit in the RoadMap/Journey Map?

Write User Stories

• What is a User Story?
• Who should write them?
• When should they be written?
• How do I split User Stories into smaller User Stories?
• Best practices & Acceptance Criteria (Bullet Point vs Gherkin Method)

Understand Product Backlog Items

• Solution Requirements (Functional and Nonfunctional)
• Spikes
• Defects
• Technical Debt

Understand Epics, Features, and Tasks

• Understanding your Product’s Vision
  • Portfolio Kanban
  • Program Kanban
• Understanding Epics
• Understanding Features
• Understanding Tasks

Apply User Story Analysis

• How to Add Detail to a User Story
• How to Split a User Story
• Backlog Management and Prioritization
  • Business Value
  • MoSCoW
  • Kano
  • Technical Value
  • WSJF (optional)
  • RICE (optional)
• Sprint Planning, Review and Retrospective

AI Prompting Frameworks

• What is Prompt?
• Importance of Clarity, Context and Constraints
• Risks of vague prompts (hallucinations, irrelevant answers)
• Frameworks defined (RICE, PCC, ICED)
• Apply Prompting Framework to User Stories

Course Review