As Agile development teams become faster, more and more pressure is placed on the people providing product requirements. What is needed are modern techniques for quickly understanding and producing requirements that developers can work with at Agile speeds.

Chris Sims and Steve Bockman of Agile Learning Labs will present a one-day class on Mastering Agile Requirements. This experiential workshop is designed for Product Managers and Developers who want to learn requirements handling techniques that are ideally suited to incremental and iterative development.

What you will learn
Through hands-on exercises and simulations, you will learn:

• User Personas
• User Story Crafting
• Acceptance Criteria
• Story Mapping
• Paper Prototyping
• Agile Release Planning

Who should learn this stuff
This workshop is ideal for agile product owners, product managers, business analysts, and anyone who wants to understand how to gather and manage requirements for an agile development team.  Developers are encouraged to participate!

Learn from two instructors
Chris Sims and Steve Bockman are collaborating to put on this workshop.  Together they bring diverse experience, and complementary teaching styles to the classroom.

Learn by doing
You don't want to spend a day sitting back listening to someone talk at you, and we wouldn't want to run a class that way.   You will spend the day writing stories, creating personas, and creating release plans with your fellow participants.

Keep learning after the class
This class comes complete with 2 hours of follow-up coaching. This is two hours that you get to use any way you see fit (note: uses that violate the Geneva Convention or international treaties are prohibited).

Instructors

Chris Sims

Chris Sims helps software development teams improve their productivity and happiness. His approach combines experiential training, coaching, and even direct technical contribution.

Chris is the founder of Agile Learning Labs, as well as the Bay Area Agile Managers Support Group. He is on the board of BayAPLN, the Bay Area chapter of the Agile Project Leadership Network, and is a past chair of the IEEE Technical Management Council of Silicon Valley. He has published over 50 articles on agile topics on InfoQ, and even more on the Agile Learning Labs blog.

Chris is a certified ScrumMaster and Certified Scrum Professional, who has been helping agile teams succeed since the turn of the century. He has made a living in roles such as: Scrum Master, Product Owner, Engineering Manager, Project Manager, C++ Developer, Musician, and Auto Mechanic.

Steve Bockman

Steve Bockman is a certified ScrumMaster, agile coach and innovator who began his career as a software developer in 1977.  He has developed software in the fields of speech recognition, terrain analysis, computer graphics, desktop publishing, industrial automation and web applications.

Steve's conference presentations include: Agile2007, Agile2008, as well as Agile Open California 2007 and 2008.  He has presented for professional organizations including: North Bay Agile, BayXP, Bay Agile Project Leadership Network, and the Bay Area Association of Database Developers.

As the founder of North Bay Agile, a special interest group dedicated to the pursuit and study of Agile software development, Steve continually strives to communicate the essence of Agile development to novices and help advanced practitioners grow their skills.

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