Course Outline

Overview and Introduction

Half-Day Primer

What Are We Up To?
Elevator Pitch
Users and Affected Groups
Project Roles
Preliminary User Stories
Conditions of Satisfaction
Assessing Value to Business
Sequencing Stories
Preliminary Story Estimation
Sequencing Revisited
What Can We Avoid
Release Planning
Iteration Planning
“Run” the Iteration
Recap

Project Initiation

Context Free Questions
Elevator Pitch
Affected Groups and Users

Project Execution

User Stories
Conditions of Satisfaction
Executable Story Tests
Story Tests
Sequencing User Stories
Estimation

Project Organization

Release Planning
Iteration Planning
Iteration Retrospective
Velocity
Burn-down
Estimation completion dates
Acceptance tests written/passing
Measuring value added

Final Project

You work on a final project with coaching support from the Object Mentor