Product Owner Key Skills: User Stories, Impact mapping

If so, join this interactive workshop and bring your product owners and business sponsors to learn how to get the most out of user stories.

Gojko Adzic will present several simple yet incredibly effective ways industry-leading teams apply to make their user stories much more effective. Come to learn how to ensure that things coming into your work stream are defined well, split to be small enough but valuable, and achieve the big benefits of adaptive planning and that you can expect from great user stories.

join this interactive workshop and bring your product owners and business sponsors to learn how to get the most out of user stories.

This is a seminar for a broad audience of anyone involved in iterative (agile/ lean/ scrum/ kanban) delivery with user stories.

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After the workshop, you will know how to:
– Fight a huge backlog with 500 crap stories
– Prioritise with multiple competing stakeholders
– Avoid a user story stream of consciousness and create a big picture for prioritisation
– Establish a good reporting structure on outcomes rather than just monitoring velocity and activity
– Get agreement from the whole team and the business sponsors about which user stories are useful and which are just noise
– Enable business sponsors to benefit from flexible scope and avoid water-scrum-fall
– Effectively prioritise based on value
– Avoid pet features
– Run impact mapping sessions

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Gojko Adzic is a strategic software delivery consultant who specialises in agile and lean quality improvement. Gojko’s book “Specification by Example” was awarded the #2 spot on the top 100 agile books for 2012 and won the Jolt Award for the best book of 2012. In 2011, he was voted by peers as the most influential agile testing professional, and his blog won the UK agile award for the best online publication in 2010.