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Crafting User Stories For Agile Excellence

This 1-day workshop helps you learn how to write clear and meaningful user stories that reflect what customers

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Next Upcoming Schedules

USD 10.00

08 - 08 February, 2026
7:30 AM - 10:30 AM (EST)

USD 10.00

05 - 05 April, 2026
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM (EST)

Private Group Training

Program Overview

The Crafting User Stories For Agile Excellence course teaches you how to write effective user stories that align with business value and drive successful Agile projects. This comprehensive course provides you with the skills and techniques needed to create user stories that are clear, concise, and impactful. Through practical exercises and real-world examples, you will learn to articulate requirements that truly reflect the needs and goals of stakeholders, ensuring your Agile projects are focused and productive.

Maximize your Agile project success with The Crafting User Stories For Agile Excellence course. By mastering the art of writing user stories, you will ensure that your team delivers high-value outcomes consistently. This course covers advanced strategies for prioritizing stories, managing backlogs, and fostering collaboration among team members. Enroll today to enhance your skills, improve team performance, and drive excellence in your Agile projects. Transform your approach to Agile development with The Crafting User Stories For Agile Excellence!

Course Details

The user Story workshop will enable all participants with what they need to identify and develop compelling user stories and comprehensive product backlogs. How do you create a user story containing all the key information, define acceptance tests, and map their current requirements process to an Agile approach? Use various lightweight techniques to identify and size a backlog of user stories and determine how to handle non-user components like business rules and non-functional requirements. This User Story training course is for those with a fundamental understanding and experience with Agile or Iterative development and the Scrum approach.

Course Topics

  • User stories vs. traditional requirement documents
  • User stories as a way to express requirements

  • Characteristics of an effective user representative
  • What to avoid?

  • Including who, what, and why
  • The importance of the “benefit to the user” in the story
  • The 3 C’s process
  • Introduction to the INVEST principle and how to use it

  • Epic stories
  • User stories
  • Business rules
  • Usability, Reliability, Performance, Supportability (BURPS)
  • Non-functional stories and defects

  • Identification of Persona
  • Personal Mapping
  • Getting started with epics
  • Splitting epics into stories

  • Lightweight techniques to eliminate waste and maximize productivity

  • When we gather them, prioritize, size, implement, test, and close them Contrast with Waterfall
 

About the Speaker

Agilemania Speaker

Vikram Singh Shekhawat PST, SPC, Enterprise Agile coach.

About the Speaker

Vikram Singh Shekhawat is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), a SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC), and an Enterprise Agile Coach (PST). He also works as a Product Manager using Agile methods.

Vikram Singh Shekhawat has developed a framework that integrates Rapid Prototyping, Customer-Centered Product Discovery, and a quick client onboarding process to increase delivery speed and agility. As a result, under Vikram's leadership, there has been a 40% reduction in delays in Managing Initiatives in less than 3 months. This shows Vikram can provide significant benefits through improved business efficiency.

Vikram is also a Professional Scrum Trainer at Scrum.org, where he has assisted other professionals in improving their Product and Scrum practices. His teaching has made it easier for people from different departments to work together, reduced the time it takes to add new features, and made the Product Owner more effective.

Areas of Expertise

  • Enterprise Agile Coaching

  • Product Management & Product Coaching

  • Professional Scrum Training

  • Agile Ways of Working

  • Rapid Prototyping & Product Discovery

  • Cross-functional Team Enablement

  • Reducing Time-to-Market & Delivery Bottlenecks

  • Customer-Centric & Outcome-Driven Agility

Vikram is really dedicated to making businesses more agile by creating spaces where teams can work well, executives can see things clearly, and companies can consistently achieve strong business results with confidence and care.

Audience

  • Product Owners, Product Managers
  • Business Owners, Stakeholders, Managers, Leaders
  • Scrum Team Members
  • Business Analysts, Tech/Team Leads, Programmers, Coders, Testers
  • Agile Coaches
  • Agile Team Member, Agile Enthusiasts
  • And anyone who is interested in understanding how requirements evolve in agile ways of working.

Prerequisites

No pre-requisites

Methodology

This program will be conducted with interactive lectures, PowerPoint presentations, group discussions, case studies, hands-on computer exercises, and some games.

Course Objectives

  • Understand the common challenges with requirements gathering
  • Impact of incorrect requirements
  • Product Backlog and its contents
  • Explore ways to elicit requirements
  • What are User Stories?
  • Creating shared understanding with User Stories

Why Register for Our 1-Day Workshops?

Career Advancement

Enhance your resume with a recognized credential. Differentiate yourself in the competitive job market. Open doors to roles in product design, UX, and innovation teams

Industry Relevance

Acquire skills highly valued in today's user-centric business landscape Stay current with modern product development methodologies. Prepare for the increasing demand for design-led innovation.

Agilemania Certification

Upon successful completion of the workshop, participants will receive an official certificate from Agilemania. This credential validates their understanding and practical knowledge of Agile Portfolio Management.

Networking Opportunities

Connect with like-minded professionals and industry experts. Build relationships that can lead to future collaborations or job opportunities.

Testimonials

What Participants Say About Our Trainers

Awesome Experience and plenty of insights from the Trainer. I took the PSPO-1 training with Vikram. The training was quite interactive and helped me understand not only the topics for the certification but also the Produce itself right from the research to the scaling of product. I cleared my PSPO-1 exam yesterday. Highly recommended official scrum.org partner training. Will come back for more such trainings in future :)
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Prajwal Gopala Shetty

Participant | PSPO

27 Sep - 28 Sep, 2025

I have recently completed my training in PSPO-AI at Agile Mania. A huge thanks to my trainer Vikram for his exceptional expertise, insightful mentorship, and skillful handling of every session. His practical examples, clear explanations, and constant encouragement made the learning engaging and helped me achieve this certification successfully
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Senthilkumar G

Participant | PSPO-AI

30 Aug - 30 Aug, 2025

It was great learning experience on PSPO-I certification. Mr. Vikram Shekhawat did an awesome job to explain the different concepts in a very simple manner & with his storytelling style. The overall content of course is also great which helps to understand & execute the concepts of Agile & Scrum in your respective work environment.
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Yogesh Patil

Participant | PSPO

23 Aug - 24 Aug, 2025

Highly recommended training for PSPO exam. The agile perception for clearing the exam taught well by Vikram.
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Hemant Mishra

Participant | PSPO

09 Nov - 10 Nov, 2024

I recently attended the PSPO (Professional Scrum Product Owner) training with Agilemania, and it was an exceptional experience. The trainer had deep expertise in Scrum and Product Ownership, and they presented the concepts in a very practical, easy-to-understand manner. The course was well-structured with real-world examples and interactive discussions that made the learning engaging. What I appreciated most was the focus on applying Scrum principles in a way that is relevant to today’s business challenges. The trainer was also very approachable and open to answering all kinds of questions, which helped clarify many doubts. Agilemania's professional approach and commitment to ensuring participants leave with a solid understanding of PSPO concepts truly stood out. I highly recommend Agilemania for anyone looking to enhance their Scrum and Product Ownership knowledge. The training has undoubtedly added value to my career as a business analyst!
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Akash Pradhan

Participant | PSPO

05 Oct - 06 Oct, 2024

I recently attended the PSPO (Professional Scrum Product Owner) training with Agilemania, and it was an exceptional experience. The trainer (Mr. Vikram) had deep expertise in Scrum and Product Ownership, and they presented the concepts in a very practical, easy-to-understand manner. The course was well-structured with real-world examples and interactive discussions that made the learning engaging. What I appreciated most was the focus on applying Scrum principles in a way that is relevant to today’s business challenges. The trainer was also very approachable and open to answering all kinds of questions, which helped clarify many doubts. Agilemania's professional approach and commitment to ensuring participants leave with a solid understanding of PSPO concepts truly stood out.
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Akash Pradhan

Participant | PSPO

05 Oct - 06 Oct, 2024

Thank you, Agilemania team, for smoothly conducting the training. I completed my PSPO certification. Our trainer, Vikram, had amazing clarity about the topics, and I'm looking forward to applying it to my work.
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Shubham Kumar

Participant | PSPO

05 Oct - 06 Oct, 2024

I had the pleasure of being trained by Vikram Singh Shekhawat from Agilemania for my PSPO-I certification, and it was an outstanding experience. Vikram's sessions were highly engaging and insightful, with a perfect balance of theoretical knowledge and practical examples. His ability to break down complex concepts and explain them in a simple, relatable way made the learning process smooth and enjoyable.
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Wilfred William

Participant | PSPO

05 Oct - 06 Oct, 2024

Took the PSPO certification training and it was a great learning experience. Will look forward to upgrade the PSPO 2/3 training in future from AgileMania.
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VYBHAVA VENKATESH

Participant | PSPO

24 Aug - 25 Aug, 2024

Had registered for PSPO 1 training, great learning experience with an amazing mentor - Mr. Vikram Singh Shekhawat.
Agilemania Testimonials

Sakshi Kapoor

Participant | PSPO

24 Aug - 25 Aug, 2024

FAQs

No, there are no strict prerequisites. Some basic awareness of Agile or Scrum will help, but the workshop is designed so that beginners and experienced professionals can both learn and apply the concepts.

Yes. The skills learned here help improve communication, reduce confusion in requirements, and support better product decisions, which are useful in almost any professional role.

 

Absolutely. The workshop is designed to be open, collaborative, and discussion-friendly.

Yes. The workshop includes simple ways to prioritize and organize user stories based on value and need.

 

Yes. Writing user stories is a core skill for these roles, and this workshop helps you build a strong foundation.

 

While it may not be a formal certification, the skills you learn are widely used across Agile teams and organizations worldwide.

 

Of course. It shows that you’ve invested in learning structured requirement-writing skills for Agile projects.

 

The duration of this workshop is 1 day. Led by industry experts. 

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