Exploring User Stories Through Mind mapping

Exploring User Stories through Mind Mapping Kenji HIRANABE Change Vision, Inc. User Wish Big Picture Mind Map User Stories Why? Who? When? Estimate, Plan, Prioritize, Test value role

Objectives
To understand what is Mind Mapping and how software development can benefit from it.
To experience how to use Mind Maps to explore user wish and carve out User Stories .

Agenda
Introduction
What is a Mind Map and Why
How Software Development Benefits from Using Mind Maps
Exploring User Wish using Mind Mapping
Demonstration
Let’s try !
Conclusion

Kenji HIRANABE(1/2)
(co-)Translator of …
XP/ Agile books
(co-)Author of …
C++ book OO, UML books Mind Map book

Kenji HIRANABE(2/2)
CEO of Change Vision, Inc.
JUDE – UML editor
With Mind Map, ERD
http://jude.change-vision.com/
TRICHORD – Agile Project Kanban Board
Kanban, Parking Lot,
http://trichord.change-vision.com/
Burndowns, Smiley Calendar

At Agile2008
I talked about …
Learning Kaizen from Toyota [with Mind Maps]
New Car Development in Toyota
Exploring User Stories through Mind Mapping
Dear XP – a song at the party

Stickyminds.com article “Agile Modeling with Mind Map and UML” Search: stickyminds Kenji HIRANABE

Mind Map
Tony Buzan
Graphical note technique
Visualize thoughts with a radiant structure
Keyword Oriented
Loose syntax and semantics
Fast and Easy
High level View
Evocative
Explore and Gather Ideas

da Vinci uses Pictures and Words at the same time

Mind Mapping
Examples …

Kent Beck’s XP 2nd

Retrospectives using Keep/Problem/Try format

Product Feature Map in Release Planning

Seminar Ideas

Project Christmas Planning

Meeting Minutes Template

Design Patterns

Mastering the Requirements Process by Suzanne and James Robertson, 1999.

Self-Introduction Mind Map
Central Image
Your name and your Icon
What describes you most
BOI’s may be,
Why (you came to Tronto)?
What (do you do) ?
Favorites (sessions so far)
3-minute introduction in pairs

User Stores: Ron Jeffries’ 3 Cs
Card
Written on note cards.
Cards may be annotated with estimates, notes, etc.
Conversation
Details behind the story come out during conversation with customer
Confirm
Acceptance tests confirm the story was coded correctly

User Stories: Mike Cohn
Shift focus from writing to talking
Metaphor of Trawling (by Suzanne and James Robertson)
Requirements can be captured with different sized nets
Requirements change, mature, possibly die
Skill is a factor
Avoid “The user”, find “Roles”
In order to <benefit>, as a <role>, I want to <story>,

Why Mind Map and User Stories Fit ?
Shift focus from writing to talking
“ Story cards” are ticket to conversation.
Needs to be “evocative”
Mind maps preserve “context” … playback effect
Trawl requirements with coarse sized net first
An architect users mind maps before drawings, to avoid getting into too specific areas in early phase.
Some important information is expressed with emotion, which cannot be captured in documents.
Use your right brain ! Emotion! Colors, and Pictures ! To fully utilize broadband communication and preserve it in your brain, as the same time, keep it into a mind map as a memento of the situation. In the future conversation, you can use it to resume the context back.

Mastering the Requirements Process by Suzanne and James Robertson, 1999.

User Wish Mind Map
The first step of getting what you want.
Get the Big Picture .
Who ? first.
Semi-structured.
Gather info and mine UseCases / User Stories .

Demonstration
City Library System Interview…

Library Interview Mind Map

UseCase Diagram

User Stories Mind Map

The big picture of this presentation User Wish Big Picture Mind Map User Stories Why? Who? When? Estimate, Plan, Prioritize, Test value role

Conclusion
Mind Mapping is effective when
Gathering Information
Exploring topics freely
User interview with Mind Mapping
Is Semi-structured
Gives a high-level view of user wish
Creates a big picture of the user wish from which you can carve out good use cases or user stories.
Why, Who, When are good input to user stories.

The mind map tool
JUDE – UML editor
With Mind Map, ERD, DFD
http://jude.change-vision.com/

User Stories Spreadsheet Also to PowerPoint!

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Exploring User Stories Through Mind mapping

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