Stories Developers Love Workbook

Your companion for the whole workshop. It explains how the programme works, contains every case and exercise you'll complete before, during and after the live day, and includes knowledge checks and a full template library. Designed to be written in, with space for your answers.

Practise on a realistic product, not toy examples. You'll join a fictional squad on Uber's UK rider app to diagnose weak stories, write acceptance criteria for a reservation reminder, split an airport-pickups epic, fix a refinement meeting that goes wrong, rescue a rushed Christmas campaign request and break a business goal all the way down to tasks. (A fictional teaching scenario, not affiliated with Uber.)

A practical guide to the four levels of work (initiative, epic, story and task) and the best technique for each: impact mapping, opportunity solution trees, story mapping, SPIDR, the hamburger method and task breakdown, with a worked example from goal to tasks.

The mistakes teams make with initiatives, epics, stories and tasks, each with why it hurts and what to do instead. Use it to audit your own backlog in 15 minutes.