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User Story Boot Camp

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 from 3:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PT)

Venice, CA

User Story Boot Camp

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Good, concise user stories are the fundamental building blocks of product development. Join Scrum Club as we expand in-depth on how to write a user story that engineering and business can agree on. We’ll also get our hands dirty as we break out into groups and write the requirements for a part of Corporate Espionage On-Line to gain experience with the techniques that were presented.

In this workshop you will learn to:

  1. Define stories as atomic pieces of value to be added to the product.
  2. Encourage feedback from the team, and use it to help shape stories, break apart stories, etc.
  3. Make exit criteria read like test cases ("When {input /}, I expect ").  Enlist the help of testers when writing them.  Prioritize them within the story, and look for opportunities to make criteria into their own stories.
Itinerary

3:00 - Doors  open
3:15 - Class starts
7:00 - Dinner (Pizza and soda)
9:00 - Class ends

Pick up from where you left off:

This workshop picks up from our last event Scrum and Requirements: Building the CE Game Engine.

Reference texts:

Please print your own copies and bring them with you.You will need both texts for all Scrum Club boot camps.

Your Coach:

Pete Neumann is the Senior VP of Operations for Findology.com and is responsible for transitioning the company to agile project leadership. Before joining Findology, Pete spent nearly six years with Miva (formerly FindWhat.com) as the company's vice president of business and corporate development. With Pete in this role, Miva saw its domestic revenues grow from a few million dollars in 2000 to over $100 million in 2003. Pete was responsible for identifying and executing channel distribution partnership deals, building and overseeing the business development team, identifying and analyzing merger and acquisition targets, creating and introducing new distribution methodologies into the marketplace, creating distribution opportunities for the company's Pay Per Call offering, and playing a key role in Miva's private label strategy.

Your Sponsors


Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects.  Learn more at la.startupweekend.org
  TechZulu is about creating a community platform for technology and media companies. TechZulu is focused on covering, discovering and connecting all the great things happening in the growing tech world.

About Corporate Espionage

Corporate Espionage is a community fundraising product offered by Scrum Club... a card game that represents a battle between freshly-funded startup companies who all have similar ideas and are entering the same target market. Each company must ramp up quickly in order to compete... and when that fails, take out the competition by any means necessary. We use our product to teach hands-on labs on real-world project management. Learn more at www.masterofespionage.com

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Rich Media Institute - LA
525 Venezia Avenue
Venice, CA 90291

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 from 3:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PT)


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Agile and Scrum are becoming standard hiring requirements... which presents the dilemma of you have to have experience to get experience. Agile and Scrum are really, really hard to understand from a book, website, or online resource. You have to be on a team that does it this way with real, live people you can talk to and collaborate with to learn how to do it. But if your company isn't running this process and you can't apply what you learn in a real world scenario, how do you learn Agile and Scrum?

Scrum Club seeks to shortcut the chicken and egg dilemma by organizing fun events and projects where professionals can come and spend a few hours to build their skills and network, then use those hours to count towards certification. http://scrumclub.org