Course Outline
1. "Scrum Framework" – Organizing projects and understanding business value "in a nutshell".
- Managing requirements within Scrum, specifically the Product Backlog Refinement process
- Scrum artifacts: Product Backlog (requirements register), Sprint Backlog (task register), and Increment (delivered business value)
- User Story Mapping as a strategy for structuring requirements effectively
2. Demonstration of a practical requirements workflow – Tracing the journey from capturing customer needs to defining the vision, Product Backlog, and Sprint Backlog, illustrated by a project implementing an application that supports specific customer business processes.
2. Presentation of a sample process of working with requirements in an application - "from registration of customer needs through creation of vision, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog on the example of a project to implement an application supporting selected customer's business processes".3. Identification of project target groups - personalization of stakeholders
- Differentiating between stakeholders, project clients, and end users
- The impact of multi-generational contexts on identifying customer needs
- Workshop: Designing user requirements – defining project personas within a multi-generational market context
4. Articulating the product/project vision
- Aligning project goals with the overarching vision
- Workshop: Crafting the product/project vision – utilizing the Canvas model to deliver business value based on customer needs and situational context
5. Establishing project quality – Definition of Done
- Identifying key quality criteria for the project
- Workshop: Developing the project’s quality definition – creating a Definition of Done
6. Uncovering business value in the project – Managing the Requirements Register (Product Backlog)
- Structuring Product Backlog work by translating customer needs into high-level and low-level requirements
- Integrating the Product Backlog – balancing common requirements with domain-specific needs
- Workshop:
o Preparing the requirements registry – epics, themes, and user stories
o Managing the product backlog through process and product perspectives
o Release planning – developing the project roadmap
7. Identifying business value in the project – Requirements and Acceptance Criteria: Building the User Story Map
- Identifying, defining, decomposing, and prioritizing requirements using tools and techniques such as Richard Lawrence’s Elephant Carpaccio exercise
- Workshop:
o Defining requirements – identifying requirements using the user story formula
o Measuring requirements and tracking effectiveness – establishing acceptance criteria for user stories
o Prioritizing requirements based on project customer needs
o Ensuring requirement clarity – translating customer needs into transparent user stories
8. Accounting for business value
- Managing requirements, tasks, and the presentation of business value to enhance efficiency
- Workshop:
o Decomposing requirements into actionable tasks
o Simulating the presentation of requirements and deliverables by the team
9. Refinement – Consolidating the workshop into an "Action Plan"
- Workshop: Summarizing the training using the SSC formula and facilitation techniques
o Start – New good practices to implement
o Stop – Practices to discontinue
o Continue – Approaches to maintain
Requirements
No prior preparation is required for this training.
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Understanding that in project management is more about tailoring and assessing each situation than just deciding what to do next.
