These slides were presented in the 3rd edition of the Scrumptious Facilitators Webinar and now available here.

1. TIPS FOR USER STORIES AND BACKLOG MANAGEMENT
Host: Kai Stevens
Support: Ziryan Salayi
Kai@scrumfacilitators.nl
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KAI ZIRYAN

2. CHEE HONG HSIA JASPER ALBLAS KAI STEVENS SJOERD KRANENDONK ZIRYAN SALAYI
Partners with
AND SCRUM COLLABORATORS: JENNY JUNG (ARTISTRY), STEVE TRAPPS (UK), ANDY HILES (UK) SWEN-PETER EKKEBUS

3. DO YOU KNOW?
Who was the first to publish a book that coined
user stories? (put your answer in the chat)
Kent Beck Mike Cohn
C
B
A
Jeff Patton

4. DO YOU KNOW?
Who was the first to publish a book that coined
user stories? (put your answer in the chat)
Kent Beck
1999
Extreme Programming Explained
Mike Cohn
2004
User Stories Applied: For Agile
Software Development
C
B
A
Jeff Patton
2014
User Story Mapping

5. AN EXAMPLE USER STORY
As a I want to So that

6. WHAT IS A USER STORY?
As a <type of user>,
I want <some goal>
so that <some reason>

7. HOW TO WRITE A GOOD USER STORY
© agileety.com

8. HOW TO WRITE A GOOD USER STORY
Get to know the user first Concise or Slice! Collaborative effort Define how to learn

9. The Product Backlog is an emergent, ordered list of
what is needed to improve the product. It is the single
source of work undertaken by the Scrum Team.
The Scrum Guide 2020
Scrum & user stories

10. WHICH OF THESE PICTURES…
…best reflects the state of your current product
backlog?
A B C

11. WHICH OF THESE PICTURES…
…best reflects the state of your current product
backlog?
A B C
Watch out
for waste!
Good! Just
keep
refining
the messy
parts in
time!
You are in
chaos…
.
Let’s tidy
this up!

12. https://netmind.net/
A GOOD PRODUCT BACKLOG IS DEEP(S)
© https://netmind.net
S
SHORT

13. ● User Data and feedback
● Stakeholder feedback
● Retrospective - Team feedback
● Sprint goals achieved
● Average Cycle time
● Number of impediments
● The newbie check
HOW TO MEASURE BACKLOG QUALITY?

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15. JASPER ALBLAS KAI STEVENS SJOERD KRANENDONK ZIRYAN SALAYI
CHEE HONG HSIA
AND SCRUM COLLABORATORS: JENNY JUNG (ARTISTRY), STEVE TRAPPS (UK), ANDY HILES (UK) SWEN-PETER EKKEBUS