User Story Mapping: making sense out of your user story backlog
Is your agile project buried under a mountain of user stories? As you add stories, does your vision of the product you’re building grow hazier? As story count increases, do business stakeholders become more frustrated with prioritization? Do you find it difficult to communicate the big picture of what your system does? User story mapping is a simple approach to gathering and organizing user stories. A story map will help you prioritize stories into sensible releases that maximize value by placing emphasis on the users of the software and what they can accomplish when the software is released. In a fun and fast-paced tutorial, Jeff Patton reviews the basics of good agile stories and describes approaches for gathering and combining user stories into a story map. Leverage story maps for planning incremental releases and for breaking down large stories into smaller pieces of work.
This tutorial is taught by alternating presentation and discussion with hands-on exercises that allow participants to learn by doing. Participants will function in small teams to build a “story map” then learn to leverage that story map to tell bigger stories about their product, plan incremental releases, and thin releases down to more economical feasible sizes while retaining usefulness to users, and value to stakeholders.