Agile Requirements: Collaborating to Define and Confirm Needs

In agile projects, requirements are the basis for delivering business value for customers. Requirements analysis is integral to delivering the right product at the right time, and on time. This intensive course builds skills in creating small, well-defined requirements to deliver value one iteration at a time.

This training focuses on the "now view" (iteration-level) of requirements within the context of the overall product/portfolio ("big view") and product releases ("pre-view"). Through practice exercises, you will learn practical techniques for defining concise user stories that form the basis for development and delivery, as well as prioritizing, estimating, and planning.

You will study how to split minimally marketable features (MMFs) into right-sized stories, how to create user story maps, and learn practical techniques for making stories “ready” for iteration planning and team delivery. You will learn to utilize option analysis and story slicing strategies, with a keen focus on business value. This training emphasizes defining and continual pruning of a healthy product backlog items, how to collaborate to develop agile requirements, ways to adapt your requirements practices, and the power of “doneness” to clarify business needs.

You’ll gain an appreciation of both the content and the timing of requirements analysis in agile projects, and you’ll learn why it’s crucial to collaborate with the entire project community. You will leverage EBG’s Agile Analysis Roadmap to learn when, where, and how to draw on other analysis models to build your agile project. Focus is placed on calibrating the content, format, and timing of your requirements analysis to participate in iteration planning and daily requirements analysis, enabling customer requirements to be transformed into quality working software and related delivery assets.