In this book, you will be given proven methods to create, maintain, and manage your requirements using user stories as part of an agile scrum teamFollowing this, I give you a complete overview of epics and themes and how they can be used to capture and group complex requirements in any team or business. Along the way, I give you plenty of examples and give you best practices for working with user stories within agile scrum. You will learn:

• What user stories are and why they are so powerful for capturing requirements in complex projects
• How to feel confident in writing user stories for any project
• What a Requirements Spec is and why they are less flexible than a product backlog built with Agile User Stories
• What the Three Rs rule, Acceptance Criteria, the INVEST Principle, the Three Cs principle and Edge Cases are and how they will make you a better user story writer or agile practitioner
• How and when to split and amalgamate stories
• Techniques to help you to split user stories when working in the real world
• The difference between Epics and Themes and when each is used
• Who is responsible for writing user stories in agile and scrum

So let's get started and let me teach you how to improve product backlog management.