Agile Requirements: Collaborating to Define and Confirm Needs 2013

This seminar and workshop teaches you how to discover and continually refine a healthy product backlog to deliver high value products. You learn effective, efficient, and creative ways for stakeholders to converse as “product partners”, gain an appreciation of the content and the timing of requirements analysis in agile projects, and why it’s crucial for the entire project community to collaborate throughout each delivery cycle.

Through practical, integrated workshop exercises you learn to holistically analyze product needs and make just-in-time decisions on what to deliver next. Using collaborative techniques, you learn to slice features and stories into well-understood, valuable chunks. You experience how to engage in “structured conversations” to discover and allocate high-value options for the next delivery cycle, at any level of agile product planning.

Delegates also receive their own copy of the book, Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning and Analysis, by Ellen Gottesdiener and Mary Gorman.

Learning Objectives
• Understand the agile framework and how it differs from traditional development
• Describe key concepts foundational to rapidly discovering product needs (requirements)
• Analyze product needs using the 7 Product Dimensions, requirements analysis models, and examples to holistically discover and allocate requirements to plans
• Assemble high value product options into cohesive stories using an explore-then-evaluate pattern
• Confirm stories with scenarios and acceptance tests
• Describe the value of using analysis models to explore, evaluate, confirm and allocate product needs
• Allocate product needs to planning views
• Explain key principles and practices of agile requirements analysis and how to transition to agile analysis practices