Do you find it challenging to break down user stories into manageable, valuable increments? Are you struggling with prioritizing stories or securing commitments from business stakeholders on their goals? If you face difficulties in determining when a story is complete, or if you need to manage and understand the scope of multiple stories to achieve a business objective, this workshop is for you. Join us for an engaging, interactive session where you will learn the art of optimizing user stories for maximum business impact. Bring your product owners and business sponsors to master practical techniques in story prioritization, estimation, and strategic planning, ensuring your team delivers effectively and efficiently.
In this interactive workshop led by Gojko Adzic, participants will explore key skills essential for Product Owners, focusing on Impact Mapping, Story Mapping, and crafting valuable user stories. By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Vienna
26 – 27 May 2025
09:00 – 17:00 CEST
Price
EUR 1400
Price excl VAT.
Early Bird Price
EUR 1300
until 2 May 2025
Vienna
01 – 02 Dec 2025
09:00 – 17:00 CET
Price
EUR 1400
Price excl VAT.
Early Bird Price
EUR 1300
until 1 November 2025
This workshop is ideal for professionals involved in product development and agile project management who seek to enhance their skills in backlog management, user story optimization, and strategic alignment. Specifically, it’s designed for:
Looking to improve their skills in prioritizing user stories, aligning stakeholder expectations, and ensuring valuable, user-centered product outcomes.
Who want to strengthen their approach to defining requirements and bridging the communication gap between stakeholders and development teams through structured techniques like impact mapping and story mapping.
Seeking effective tools to facilitate backlog refinement, improve team alignment, and guide product owners in delivering maximum business value.
Interested in understanding how to contribute to the story mapping and impact mapping processes, allowing for better collaboration with product owners and alignment with business goals.
Who wish to engage in agile processes more effectively, gain a clearer understanding of the product’s strategic direction, and see how to achieve valuable, incremental releases.
This course benefits anyone involved in agile product development who wants to achieve better outcomes through improved prioritization, clearer user stories, and actionable feedback.
Gojko Adzic is a strategic software delivery consultant who works with ambitious teams to improve the quality of their software products and processes. He specialises in agile and lean quality improvement, in particular agile testing, specification by example and behaviour driven development.
Gojko’s book Specification by Example was awarded the #2 spot on the top 100 agile books for 2012 and won the Jolt Award for the best book of 2012. In 2011, he was voted by peers as the most influential agile testing professional, and his blog won the UK agile award for the best online publication in 2010.
Vienna
26 – 27 May 2025
09:00 – 17:00 CET
01 – 02 Dec 2025
09:00 – 17:00 CET
Price
EUR 1400
Price excl VAT.
Early Bird Price
EUR 1300
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Impact Mapping helps teams create a clear link between business goals and product requirements. It visualizes how certain features support the company’s objectives, ensuring that the team focuses on the most valuable functions that have the greatest impact on the business and its users.
Story Mapping is a method for visualizing the user journey and prioritizing user stories. By using Story Mapping, the team can understand the order and importance of features, guiding the product development process in a structured and user-centered way.
User Stories are simple descriptions of requirements from the user’s perspective, typically phrased as, “As a [role], I want [feature] so that [benefit].” They ensure that the team understands and prioritizes the needs of end-users.
In summary: Impact Mapping, Story Mapping, and User Stories are essential techniques in agile product development. Impact Mapping focuses on achieving business goals, Story Mapping organizes the development process from the user’s perspective, and User Stories ensure that the team clearly understands and delivers user value.
User Stories are concise descriptions of a requirement from the user’s perspective, typically structured as “As a [role], I want [feature] so that [benefit].” They help the team understand what the user needs and why it’s valuable, providing a high-level view of the feature or functionality.
Acceptance Tests, on the other hand, define the specific criteria that need to be met for a User Story to be considered complete and successful. They are detailed, testable conditions that verify whether the feature works as expected. Acceptance Tests confirm that the functionality aligns with the user’s needs and meets the intended quality standards.
How they are related: User Stories and Acceptance Tests work hand-in-hand in agile development. While User Stories define what the feature is and why it matters, Acceptance Tests provide clear, objective criteria to confirm how the feature should function. Together, they ensure that the team and stakeholders share a common understanding of the requirements and quality expectations for each feature.
Answer: Yes, we offer several discounts to make the course more accessible to everyone:
Our courses are generally subsidised by the Public Employment Service Austria (AMS). In addition, there are various funding programmes for training and further education in each federal state.
Our training courses take place in 1220 Vienna – with the best view over Vienna in the DC Spaces of the Saturn Tower. The best way to reach us by public transport is to take the U1 underground line to Vienna International Centre station. Parking is available in the Saturn Tower for a fee.
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