This week, Dan Neumann is joined by two AgileThought colleagues, Alba Uribe and Michael Guiler, to explore the concept of User Story Mapping.

In this episode, Dan, Alba, and Michael are diving deep into different approaches to starting backlog; they describe the benefits of story mapping and explain why it is a great tool to achieve a shared understanding throughout the whole team. Listen to this episode to achieve a comprehensive understanding of Story Mapping with various examples that will help you put this concept into practice.

Key Takeaways

● Why is Story Mapping a great way to create a product backlog?

○ All the team can see the overall vision and what is in the mind of the product owner.

○ It is a way to identify the release strategy.

○ Story Mapping can be a helpful tool when change needs to be embraced.

● Mechanics about how to create a User Story Map.

○ Who? Story Mapping starts with the user.

○ What are the goals to achieve? A journey map for the team including all pain points.

○ How? Identify how to address those pain points.

○ Organizing left to right and top to bottom.

● Examples of Story Mapping and Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

○ Alba shares how she uses Story Mapping in her work as an artist.

● Story Mapping can go wrong.

○ Not knowing how to identify your MVP.

○ Having difficulty identifying opportunities for learning.

○ The what and the why need to be addressed for Story Mapping, not just the how.

○ Having someone with experience in Story Mapping is hugely important for the process to develop the best way possible.

○ There need to be conversations about how Story Mapping will be done.

Mentioned in this Episode:

User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product, by Jeff Patton and Peter Economy

Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition, by Lyssa Adkins

Medical Medium: Cleanse to Heal, by Anthony Williams

Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale, by Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, and Barry O’Reilly

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