Product Owner Key Skills – Impact Mapping, Story Mapping and Valuable User Stories
3-4 October 2017, 9 am – 5 pm
23-24 April 2018, 9 am – 5 pm
This workshop is for people who want to learn several effective ways that 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.
- I had the fortunate experience of attending Gojko Adzic’s workshop at Booster 2014 on improving user stories. I must say, that for me it was more like ‘radically rethinking the way you’re doing user stories’, Ørjan Taule
- Clearly loads of insight and value + well worth doing, Rory MacDonald
- Enjoyable, interesting and useful course with engaging teacher, Morven Ramsay
- Engaging, informative and energizing – it’s a must, Rob Malcom
- Thought provoking! Inspired to try and implement the ideas in my team, Gavin Bussey
Intended Audience
This is a seminar for a broad audience of anyone involved in iterative (agile/lean/scrum/kanban) delivery with user stories. Business sponsors will learn how to ensure their organisation benefits more from agile team delivery capability, and how to steer product management and delivery better to achieve strategic goals faster. Analysts and Product owners will learn how to link between business sponsors and teams more effectively, how to select and prioritise stories and features to achieve better impacts Developers and testers will learn how to engage with business stakeholders and product owners to get better direction and focus delivery on things that really matter.
Gojko Adzic is a strategic software delivery consultant who works with ambitious teams to improve the quality of their software products and processes. He specialises in agile and lean quality improvement, in particular agile testing, specification by example and behaviour driven development.
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.
Key Learning Points
This workshop is based on our books Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your User Stories, Impact Mapping and years of experience helping teams deliver better software. After the workshop, you will know how to:
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- 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
- Split the ‘unsplittable’ stories, and ensure that work items are small but actually still valuable
- Avoid getting stuck in ‘technical stories’
- Run user story mapping sessions
Schedule:
Day 1 morning:
- how to effectively work with a large existing backlog of stories (story card hell) with multiple competing stakeholders
- how to capture and describe real value with small user stories that just contribute to a larger picture
- how to measure progress better than with just story points and avoid mistaking activity for success
Day 1 afternoon:
- how to avoid water-scrum-fall where too many things need to come together to make a release and it’s not easy to come up with small but valuable chunks
- how impact mapping can help facilitate the discussion around value and success
- how to run impact mapping sessions
- how to use impact maps to align competing stakeholders and for product discovery
What former Attendees said
Gojko is an experienced lector! It´s very practical & beneficial! Go for it! Very great excercises! Interactive! It was inspiring and interesting! Great presenter!
Schedule:
Day 2 morning:
- how to get good feedback from users and how to avoid misleading feedback
- how to split the stories that are too big but difficult to slice
- how to avoid technical stories
Day 2 afternoon:
- how to incorporate results of user research into release planning
- how to use story maps to plan releases for larger pieces of work, when there is significant risk in releasing the wrong product so iterative improvements are not an option
- how to facilitate story mapping workshops and avoid the most common problems with them
Registration
Venue
TechTalk Office
Leonard-Bernstein-Straße 10
1220 Wien
Price
EUR 1200 Early Bird
EUR 1300 Regular
Price excl. VAT.
For additional information please contact trainings@techtalk.at