Jatin Kamat has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 1 narrator. The most-rated is The Practical Guide to Creating User Stories.
The Practical Guide to Scrum
Summary
How is your Scrum going? Scrum provides you a framework but doesn't exactly tell you how to do it. Do you want to deviate from “textbook” practices but ensure that you’ll still be Agile? This guide will show you how to practically implement Scrum. Are you running into some of these Scrum challenges where.... Sprint planning seems to take forever. Daily stand-up meetings have become micromanaging status updates. You find that you’re working on user stories that aren’t well defined yet. You are wondering what are some ways to manage this work when everything is a “high" priority. You are unable to create an empowered, self-organizing, and self-examining team that embraces rapid iteration. Scrum teams are unable to prioritize correctly and estimate realistically. Technical debt keeps accumulating resulting in poor quality products. Inability to effectively run various Scrum events In this book, you will learn how to.... Write better user stories...so you can deliver the right products to market. Rapidly estimate.... It will help you plan out iterations. Start your Sprints.... This will give you a higher chance of a successful Sprint planning session. Exactly track the progress...so you know the amount of unfinished work. Calculate the velocity...so you can effectively plan out your releases. Structure the team.... This will help you build the best Scrum team to deliver products. You will also learn.... Several practical Scrum techniques...so you can start implementing right away! A quality technique.... This will massively improve the quality of your product. How to run meetings effectively...so you can save tons of time How to be efficient in time-boxed sprint events...ensuring removal of waste in the process To create a continuous feedback loop.... This will improve communications, transparency, and ability to inspect and adapt. How to be results-oriented.... This will make your team members switch from "what we are doing" to "what is getting done".
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The Practical Guide to Creating User Stories
Summary
How effective are your user stories? Agile is a pragmatic-approach mind-set. Scrum provides you a framework, but doesn't exactly tell you how to do it. Do you want to deviate from “textbook” practices but ensure that you’ll still be Agile? This guide will show you how to practically create user stories in Scrum. Are you running into these user story challenges where you: Keep missing out on requirements Struggle to write a story when there is a large amount of uncertainty Are unable to handle dependencies between stories Make overall development harder by leaving most of the work in one story Cannot figure out which story technique to apply in what context Are stressed out trying to keep up as every story is "high priority" In this book, you will learn: Simple techniques to capture user stories...so a customer/user gets exactly what they want To split bigger stories...as these practical techniques will allow you to rapidly deliver in short sprints To set up story completion criteria...so there is no more guessing if it is done yet About just enough documentation...so you can add the right amount of detail To defer to last responsible moment...so you can add details at the right time To refine user stories...to help you continuously deliver high value to customer/user How to handle extremely complex stories...so you can reduce uncertainty How to plug the gaps...so you do not miss out on requirements The pitfalls and limitations.... so this will allow you to watch out when to not use user stories You will also learn how to: Engage your team and avoid frequently shifting priorities Use practical techniques to right-size your stories so you get rapid feedback Use conversations that will allow you to avoid rote practices and build out better stories Refine product backlog that will help you be ready for next sprint Handle unknowns using a technique to develop new knowledge rather than new functionality
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