The document discusses story mapping, an agile technique where business analysts create visual maps to align user stories with a product's overall vision and goals. It explains how story maps show the sequence and dependencies of user stories across sprints and releases. The document provides an example of a story map for a museum website and instructions for how to create a basic story map.

1. Story-mapping:
How an Agile BA can
create a better roadmap
Stephanie Vineyard
Business Analysis Service Lead

2. Business Analyst Lead,
Agile trainer and coach
Board member of the
IIBA DC Chapter
CSM, CSPO, PMP, ITIL
Stephanie
Vineyard

3. Understand an Agile BA mindset for
developing requirements
Use story-maps to
align user stories with product vision
Learn a new technique you can apply
to your work
Intentions

4. A step in the process.
Traditional
business analysis

5. Agile business analysis
Part of the cycle.

6. How business analysis fits into the bigger
picture…

7. BA on a
Scrum team

8. Story mapping

10. The Problem

11. Story Maps

12. Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4
User Story User Story User Story User Story
User Story User Story User Story User Story
User Story User Story User Story User Story
User Story User Story User Story User Story
User’s Sequence in Time
From Jeff Patton - agileproductdesign.com
Story Maps
Story Maps visualize the overall
product, and thereby help to
convey the “Big Picture”

13. 13
Story Maps
Lower Priority
User Stories
User stories by sprint
(high priority)
Core Capabilities

14. Dependencies
mapped across
Product Development
Teams
Versions

15. Vision: Create a website
for a museum to share
their collection or on-site
materials online for
teachers across the
country to use in their
classrooms.
Exercise

16. 1. Create high-level features or epics per goal.
2. Arrange epics across releases – releases
on X, features on Y.
3. Identify a release goal.
Directions

17. Sharing our stories

18. Digital vs Physical
Minimal Marketable Features
What would you add?
Tips for using this technique

19. Understand an Agile BA mindset for
developing requirements
Use story-maps to
align user stories with product vision
Learn a new technique you can apply
to your work
Were our intentions met?

20. Stephanie Vineyard
Stephanie.vineyard@excella.com
Twitter: @tesiemae
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smvineyard
Website: Http://www.excella.com