A Story Map is a way to help visualize the flow or story of a product. Across the top or horizontal axis of the map we place the major steps (often features) in the user’s workflow. Underneath each step or feature are the individual stories that would build out the portion of the product.
Story Maps were invented because their creator Jeff Patton was frustrated with “flat” Product Backlogs that lost track of the Product Vision. People use Story Maps as a stepping stone from Vision to User Stories, they’re also used to help sort out and recover from a messy Large Product Backlog.
Learning Story Mapping Through Exercises
Resource Links:
- A Beginner’s Guide to Story Mapping
- A Guide to User Story Mapping: Templates and Examples (How to Map User Stories)
- How to create a User Story Map
- The New User Story Backlog is a Map
- Sketchnotes: Part I and Part II
- Story Map Concept
- Story Mapping, Visual Way of Building Product Backlog
- User Story Mapping in Practice (Video)
- User Story Mapping (by Jeff Patton) — Bullet Summary
- User Story Mapping for Beginners
- Working with User Story Mapping
STORY MAPPING TOOLS:
STORY MAPPING BOOKS:
See Also:
Impact Mapping
Roadmaps and Strategy
Mark Levison has been helping Scrum teams and organizations with Agile, Scrum and Kanban style approaches since 2001. From certified scrum master training to custom Agile courses, he has helped well over 8,000 individuals, earning him respect and top rated reviews as one of the pioneers within the industry, as well as a raft of certifications from the ScrumAlliance. Mark has been a speaker at various Agile Conferences for more than 20 years, and is a published Scrum author with eBooks as well as articles on InfoQ.com, ScrumAlliance.org an AgileAlliance.org.
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