Building a Smart Agile Product Backlog with User Stories

Gain the practical know how to create an Agile product backlog

4.30 (1903 reviews)
Udemy
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English
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6,549
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2.5 hours
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Feb 2023
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$54.99
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What you will learn

Learn how to visualize an e-commerce web application in terms its key features and capabilities

Learn how to use a product vision to lend purpose to a product backlog

Learn how to generate a continuous pipeline of ideas for a product backlog

Learn how to map each feature into one or more user stories and related acceptance criteria

Learn how to supplement a user story with appropriate mock ups

Learn how to identify epics & themes

Learn how to prioritize user stories and manage dependencies

Learn how to split & merge user stories

Description

A product backlog is an artifact that captures the entire body of work pertaining to an application. This is the most significant artifact for a Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban or any other Agile framework team since all the work that an Agile team does emanates from or is related to what is in their product backlog. And this is why, when it comes to creating, updating, and maintaining a product backlog, it needs to  ample diligence and focus. This 2 + hours course is aimed at teaching you all you need to know about creating, updating & maintaining an Agile product backlog. I believe that learning by doing is one of the most powerful ways of gaining knowledge and that is basis of how I designed this course. In this course  you will learn by doing i.e you will learn how to create an actual product backlog for an e-commerce web application. You will see how to create a product backlog from organically from scratch and learn how to incorporate and address various aspects and actions pertaining to a product backlog such as identification and breaking down an application into user stories, epics and themes, writing of such entities, ordering, dependency management, splitting of user stories, etc. The thing that makes this course impactful is that it uses one of the most prevalent type of application in the world - an e-commerce application - to develop a product backlog. The numerous examples that you will see come to fruition from scratch will help further drill down the knowledge.

One more thing, The reason I felt compelled to create such an offering was that I simply could not find a course anywhere online that demonstrated how to actually create a product backlog. There are lots of courses on agile and user stories, etc. but all of them, without exception, trade in regurgitating academic information. Again, this is where the course differentiates itself by miles in that it teaches by doing.

I do believe that this course is very likely still the only course of its kind in terms of its approach and concrete, actionable knowledge that it conveys.

 

Content

Introduction

Introduction
Visualizing an e-commerce application
Naming, product offering and users
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Product details page
User registration
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Identifying epics & themes
Splitting user stories
Splitting user stories continued
Merging user stories
Prioritization & dependency management
Using product vision
Product backlog ideation
Message from Instructor

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Reviews

Vinay
November 5, 2023
Everything was great, only the mock-ups seems to be older. Now most of the B2C websites don't have all the steps as shown in this course. But very good course indeed.
Vincent
November 2, 2023
This course provides very good examples and level of detail to apply to user story development. I have been able to capture key user story writing frameworks to be used for my app development.
Norbert
March 22, 2023
Really enjoyable course, with simple and easy to understand concepts, and just the right level of detail and repetition to be helpful. Highly recommend!
Nidhi
January 13, 2023
To the point Course. Very easy to grasp the contents, everything was explained with the help of examples. I will definitely try some other course as well created by the instructor.
Cory
January 9, 2023
Great course on writing effective user-stories. At the right level and right pace. The examples were very useful as well!
Justina
November 30, 2022
It is perfect for people who learn though practice and not theory. All that is needed to cover the whole flow of daily BA work. Highly recommend. One note that may get annoying - during each step of visual there is that graphic hand typing or drawing which may be very distractive
Eric
October 29, 2022
The information covered was solid, but I felt like it was stretched out. Did we really have to have separate sections for each feature? One or two would have probably sufficed. But I did appreciate the inclusion of doing mockups as part of user story creation - it's often helpful to visualize what you're describing, and I may try to use that one!
Ruben
October 3, 2022
Very interesting and great use case. However, I think it was too long. I believe that with a couple of features to do the example would have been enough to capture the whole explanation, ideas and key concepts behind this lecture.
Sia
July 19, 2022
It just had few points that made to average! The title "Gain the practical know how to create an Agile product backlog" is misleading as topics are pretty shallow. all chapters from 5-15 weren't necessary - you just needed one example and chapter 4 was detailed enough. On the other hand skipping prioritisation because it was out of scope of "Gain the practical know how to create an Agile product backlog" was a big shock!
K
July 19, 2022
Excellent with Practical Examples for each scenario in real world. Liked the Splitting of Stories examples very much.
Neha
July 14, 2022
Since I haven’t completed but I liked this bcz it’s easy to understand and adding value to your knowledge.
Maria
June 30, 2022
The course is very well structured, with good explanations as well as practical examples of the items of a backlog. The instructor speaks at an easy-to-follow pace.
Bojan
May 22, 2022
Great way of explaining how to create a backlog and user stories for Front end part of the application. What I missed and would like that I saw is at least one lecture about back end part pf the application and how to write a user story for it. Thank you
Kokilavani
April 25, 2022
Being a Product Manager, this course was very relevant and practical and helped me understand best processes to follow while creating a Product Backlog and to write better user stories!
Scott
February 14, 2022
It is impossible to get to the depth required for some of us to get all our questions answered in topics such as these. This laid a good foundation by which one needs to get started. I am not a product owner nor a business analyst. I spotted a couple of areas where questions came up and I really could not have asked them. That said, this was very useful in defining key items.

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