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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 team. Following 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.