Agenda

11:30-noon: Registration and lunch
Noon-12:05: Chapter announcements
12:05-1:00: Presentation

From Models to Stories: Building Your Agile Backlog

Business analysts, product managers, and product owners have embraced the power of visual models in software requirements projects. However, as teams transition to agile, the place for visual models is evolving. This presentation will discuss the use and timing of visual models in agile, how to use models to identify user stories and system stories for the backlog, how models can be employed when elaborating stories in the backlog,and even how to leverage models to improve business engagement in agile projects. We will show you specific examples and will practice together using a simple scenario.

Learning Objectives

• Gaining an overview of models and how they fit in agile.
• How to discover user stories using models such as Feature Trees and Process Flows.
• How to use models to elaborate user stories.

Speaker bio:

Amanda, a Senior Product Manager, is a Seilevel Certified Instructor and practitioner. Seilevel is a business analysis and product management company that helps lead Fortune 1000 companies to deliver quality software whose value increases significantly through the business analysis and product management process. Amanda works with her clients to effectively cut scope and deliver the minimum viable product, which saves companies millions of dollars in downstream costs. In addition to leading software development projects, she is passionate about helping organizations improve their business analysis and agile practices.