BA's & Brunch: User Stories for the Real World

10000 Marshall Drive,Lenexa KS 66215

13 November, 2021

Description

Introducing BA's and Brunch , a Saturday morning workshop opportunity for hands-on skill development for BA's and product owners! This in person event is free to IIBA members. 3 PD's for 1st time certification seekers | 3 CDU's towards recertification (Category 1A) Prior to agile development, requirements gathering was a long, exhaustive process designed to produce a comprehensive document with all the details in it. Changes to this document usually required a big process. With few exceptions, this approach did not fit the changing needs of modern business. As agile methodologies began to change the landscape of software development, “user stories” became a popular method of gathering requirements. But many organizations struggled and continue to struggle with both the authoring and the usage of good user stories. They can seem a lot more challenging to work with than the “traditional” requirements documents, and when they are shaky, they do not seem to deliver on the promise of agility. The good news is that these are problems that can easily be solved with just a little help! You can become a user story pro that can supercharge your organization’s requirements gathering process and finally get those benefits that made them think about agile development in the first place. In this session, we'll take a hands-on approach to writing good user stories and working them into an incremental, flow-based delivery practice. You'll learn: - Why most projects fail and how you can manage requirements to turn them around - How to apply the “small batch” principle to requirements and delivery - A simple, acronym-free guide to writing good user stories - How to spot less than ideal user stories and how to correct them - Acceptance criteria for capturing details - How to use story tasks to get as much productivity from the development team as you can - Backlogs, buffers, and how much is too much Our Speaker: Phil Ledgerwood Phil Ledgerwood’s resumé looks like seven other people’s resumés stitched together. He has baked bagels, guarded Clint Black’s town home, cooked for a gourmet food shop, freed stuck college students from elevators, managed printing plates for packaging, and served as a linguist in the Air Force. He taught himself HTML when the Netscape browser was still a thing, and the rest is history. Phil is a twenty-year veteran of the software development industry in the Kansas City area. If you’re in the Kansas City area, he is two degrees of separation away from any programmer you know and has probably worked for, at, or with your company. When the agile movement hit town, Phil knew a good thing when he saw it and became an early adopter of first wave agile practices. He has used these practices to ideate, build, and complete software projects ranging from loan forecasting to routing irrigation trucks to managing pharmacies to predictive lead generation to selling teddy bears. When people ask what vertical his company serves, he says, “Yours.” Phil has incorporated Lean methodologies into software development just like his father used to do in manufacturing. When he partnered with Travis Dietz to start Integrity Inspired Solutions in 2012, they laid the foundation in Lean to make the custom software development enterprise more humane, predictable, and focused on the success of everyone involved. A regular speaker at developer, Lean, and Agile conferences, Phil has a passion for taking his company’s ways to other companies whether they create software or not. He loves to see them transform from a collection of interactions riddled with disappointments and broken promises to team-oriented relational companies enjoying newfound trust, joy, efficiency, and success. Several companies from all over the world in all different industries contract Phil to help coach them through their own journeys. When he’s not helping project managers learn predictive metrics or helping developers write customer-focused features, he’s enjoying a wide array of highly geeky hobbies including fantasy and sci-fi novels, gaming, and teaching Filipino stick fighting. His main hobby is making the world a better place for everyone who has to share the planet with him, and the engine for that is love. The International Institute of Business Analysis™ (IIBA®) is a non-profit professional association serving the growing field of business analysis. As the global thought leader and voice of the business analysis community, IIBA® actively supports the recognition of the profession, and works to maintain global standards for the ongoing development of the practice and certifications.