User stories you come across in just about every project and team these days. Great, right! Well, not quite...
It all seems so simple. Use a certain format and hop... you have a user story.
If only it were that easy.

How can we be sure that that user story will translate correctly into real functionality?
How do we know if the user story is the right size? How do you prioritize the user stories you create?

You'll learn the answers to these questions (and more!) in this track. Let's go!

User stories are a crucially important tool in current agile development processes. They are used as a means to describe system characteristics and requirements from an end user perspective.

In this course you will:

• Learn the proper characteristics of an agile analyst
• Understand the importance of structure and prioritization through user story maps
• Learn to correctly identify and define user stories
• Understand the importance of user story splitting and apply the principles correctly

Kick-off

• Introduction
• Are you agile?
• Essential agile analysis skills

How do I work agile?

• A smarter introduction to Scrum
• Debriefing & coaching

How do I build agile?

• The ultimate guide to User Stories
• Introduction to User Story maps
• User Stories & Story map workshop

Split, split, split

• User Story splitting
• User Story splitting workshop

Coaching

• Evaluation

User Stories - a ultimate guide is a blended learning course.
That means you go through a combination of self-study moments and live sessions. 
This balance between theory and practice ensures that at the end of the course, you not only have the knowledge, but above all the skills!

The self-study moments are quite diverse. Sometimes you will be expected to take an online course on The Master Channel between live sessions (such as the ‘How to find a better problem to solve’ course). In other modules, you might have to prepare a small assignment that you will then cover with the lecturer during the next live session.

We organise the live sessions both online or at location (Kontich). The specific sessions of a training course mention in which way the sessions are organized. In the live sessions, you practice the techniques and tools you learn throughout the training. In a classroom (offline) session, participants should bring their own laptop.

To make best use of the live sessions, you are expected to follow the online courses and prepare assignments independently.  

No specific background is required.

Everybody interested in learning how to effectively use user stories in their day-to-day activities.