User Story Masterclass

Learn how to efficiently write, split, and map powerful User Stories and Acceptance Criteria to improve the effectiveness and success of your Agile projects.

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Put your customers’ requirements first with Agile User Stories that increase effectiveness and project success. 

This course will take you from beginner to expert when creating User Stories. The format of User Stories, the creation of Acceptance Criteria, resolving typical problems, dividing User Stories, User Story Mapping, and other best practices will all be explained in detail.

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Put your customers’ requirements first with Agile User Stories that increase effectiveness and project success. 

This course will take you from beginner to expert when creating User Stories. The format of User Stories, the creation of Acceptance Criteria, resolving typical problems, dividing User Stories, User Story Mapping, and other best practices will all be explained in detail.

Learn more about the course and your instructors below!

What you’ll learn in this course:

  • Introduction to User Stories with a complete overview of their essential components, and whose responsibility they are. 
  • Acceptance Criteria overview with a well-rounded review of what they are, how to write them, and best practices in writing them. 
  • How to Write User Stories with the INVEST criteria which can ensure that you’re creating and analyzing good user stories. 
  • Understanding Estimation including how you can leverage the Fibonacci sequence.
  • How to Split User Stories using different methods.
  • Common Challenges that you may come across when trying to create User Stories and how to overcome them.
  • User Story Mapping essentials, including what they are, why you’ll want to use them, and how to create them. 

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Awesome Perks

We’ve included some pretty insightful and useful resources with this course, including: 

  • High-quality, Engaging Video Lectures
    Our video lectures are created to break down concepts and techniques into a step-by-step guide that makes it easy to understand and grasp the lessons.
  • Downloadable Handouts
    Our handouts help improve your comprehension and retention of important concepts.
  • Quizzes and Activities
    Our added activities and quizzes help verify your understanding of concepts and identify any gaps in knowledge retention.

The Extras

  • Money-Back Guarantee
    If you’re not happy with the course, contact us in the first 30 days and we’ll give you your money back.
  • Lifetime Access
    Enrollment grants you unlimited access to your course and any activities, resources, handouts, and quizzes for life.
  • 1-on-1 Support
    Unlimited 1-on-1 support directly from your instructor for any questions you might have.

Jeremy Aschenbrenner,
Chief Instructor

Meet Your Instructor

Hi, I’m Jeremy Aschenbrenner!
Many know me better as The BA Guide.

After gaining a decade of valuable experience in business analysis and consistently delivering successful projects that drive value for organizations, I decided to follow my passion for teaching others. This led me to establish The BA Guide, a platform dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations by sharing my expertise.
Learn more about me here

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Customer Appreciation

"Very straight forward and jam-packed with useful information with regards to user stories! Examples, videos, and layout make this course that much more worth it."
Diego -
"Great course! Content was told a good pace and was easy to understand. The real world examples also added an extra depth to different topics, giving a lot of the definitions, discussions, and descriptions context."
Zachary -
"I am making a career transition to becoming a scrum master. I've heard of user stories but never knew what they were all about. This course is great for beginners like or anyone who has an interest. The instructors do a wonderful job of breaking the concepts down, and providing examples to tie everything together."
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Course Curriculum

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User Story Masterclass

Welcome to the Course!

  1. Introduction to the course
  2. User Stories are not just for Agile
  3. Meet Your Instructors

Recap of Agile

  1. How the Agile Manifesto applies to User Stories
  2. How the Agile Principles applies to User Stories
  3. Validate your understanding of Agile
  4. DOWNLOAD: Agile Manifesto and Principles Resource

Introducing User Stories

  1. What are User Stories and why are they used?
  2. User Story format
  3. Let's Discuss: Who writes user stories and when are they written?
  4. 3 C's for writing user stories
  5. ACTIVITY - Write your first User Stories
  6. Difference between requirements and user stories
  7. Difference between use cases and user stories
  8. ACTIVITY - Use cases, user story, and requirements worksheet
  9. User roles
  10. User personas
  11. ACTIVITY - User Roles and Persona activity
  12. ACTIVITY - Iterating on User Stories with new Roles and Personas
  13. Let's Discuss: User Stories
  14. Validate your understanding of the User Story basics

Acceptance Criteria

  1. Understanding Acceptance Criteria
  2. Writing Acceptance Criteria
  3. Who writes Acceptance Criteria and when are they written?
  4. Acceptance Criteria best practices
  5. ACTIVITY - Adding acceptance criteria to your user stories
  6. Validate your understanding of Acceptance Criteria

Write Better Stories with INVEST

  1. INVEST explained
  2. Let's Discuss: INVEST Criteria
  3. Validate your understanding of INVEST

Non-User Stories

  1. Understanding Spikes
  2. Understanding Infrastructure and Technical stories

Estimating

  1. General concept of estimating
  2. Understanding the Fibonacci estimation technique

Splitting User Stories

  1. Introducing the concept of splitting
  2. Why split user stories?
  3. Splitting with Simplicity
  4. Splitting with Workflow
  5. Splitting with CRUD
  6. Splitting with Entry Method
  7. Splitting with Spikes
  8. Splitting Wrap Up
  9. DOWNLOAD - User story splitting resource
  10. ACTIVITY - User Story Splitting activity
  11. ANSWER KEY - User Story Splitting activity
  12. Validate your understanding of user story splitting

Common Challenges

  1. Providing the who and the why
  2. Handling bugs and defects
  3. Dealing with dependencies
  4. Changing user stories mid-sprint
  5. Challenges using Agile Estimation
  6. Validate your understanding of common challenges

User Story Mapping

  1. What are Story Maps?
  2. Why are Story Maps used?
  3. Creating a Story Map
  4. Walking through the creation of a Story Map
  5. Using Story Maps to Conduct Release Planning
  6. ACTIVITY: User Story Mapping Activity
  7. Validate your understanding of User Story Maps

User Story Final Activity

  1. User Story Final Activity Introduction
  2. STAGE 1 - Review the Scenario
  3. STAGE 2 - Create User Stories
  4. STAGE 3 - Instructions to Review Groups
  5. STAGE 3 (cont) - Review Group 1
  6. STAGE 3 (cont) - Review Group 2
  7. STAGE 3 (cont) - Review Group Lessons Learned
  8. STAGE 4 - Update and Iterate User Stories
  9. STAGE 5 - Analyze and Reflect

Next Steps

  1. Well done! What's Next?

User Story Masterclass Course

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User Story Masterclass

Introduction to the Course

User Stories are not just for Agile

User Story Format

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