Creating a backlog of user stories is pretty straight forward but it doesn't help you when it comes to decisions like what to build first, how to prioritize and groom the backlog, how to scope and plan the project, and how to visualize progress. The traditional backlog is simply too flat and often too long to help you see the bigger picture and make good decisions. User Story Mapping helps simplify all of these common project issues. By adding a third dimension to your backlog, your team will make better decisions about priorities, scope, and planning while improving your ability to visualize progress.
In this practical session I’ll cover the basics of user story mapping before walking you through case studies of how our teams are using this approach and the results we are achieving. I'll show you the before, during, and after pictures from several projects so that you can understand how our maps progress during the projects and how we use them to influence iterative development, promote good decision making, and visualize priorities, plans, scope and progress.
User Story Mapping, Discover the whole storyJeff Patton
Variations of these slides have been used in a variety of talks.
These slides support discussions on why stories work, and when they don't. And, on story mapping, how and why it works.
User Story Maps: Secrets for Better Backlogs and PlanningAaron Sanders
User story mapping is an intuitive way to build and organize a product backlog. During this session you’ll get hands-on experience building a user story map. You’ll learn:
How story mapping drives productive conversations with users and stakeholders.
How to plan incremental releases of your product using minimal holistic slices that deliver value at each product release.
Secrets to effective prioritization for both planning releases, and figuring out what to build next.
Tactical management of your backlog as you grow your working software to releasability.
The backlog building and managing strategies in this session will take you well beyond the agile basics.
UX is omnipresent nowadays and will grow more and more the tool of innovation. Companies are becoming aware of the vitality of adopting this technology from the start. The Importance of UX is a presentation of how we as a UX Design Team implement UX in projects.
Lean Startup + Story Mapping = Awesome Products FasterBrad Swanson
To deliver the right outcomes, you need to learn your customers needs and validate your assumptions as early as possible. This means getting an early version of your product completed to start testing, validating and improving. This session will demonstrate how to combine Lean Startup and User Story Mapping techniques to determine where to start and how to learn early and often.
Participants will start with a partially completed Lean Canvas to flesh out and then define a product roadmap by building a Story Map. We will use Lean Startup concepts of Minimal Viable Product (MVP) and validated learning to focus on outcome over output.
Learning objectives:
Understand the importance of accelerated learning and techniques to achieve it
How a Lean Canvas can help shape your product vision and MVP
How to build a story map to create a product roadmap
How to use a story map to validate your users' journey
Creating a backlog of user stories is pretty straight forward but it doesn't help you when it comes to decisions like what to build first, how to prioritize and groom the backlog, how to scope and plan the project, and how to visualize progress. The traditional backlog is simply too flat and often too long to help you see the bigger picture and make good decisions. User Story Mapping helps simplify all of these common project issues. By adding a third dimension to your backlog, your team will make better decisions about priorities, scope, and planning while improving your ability to visualize progress.
In this practical session I’ll cover the basics of user story mapping before walking you through case studies of how our teams are using this approach and the results we are achieving. I'll show you the before, during, and after pictures from several projects so that you can understand how our maps progress during the projects and how we use them to influence iterative development, promote good decision making, and visualize priorities, plans, scope and progress.
User Story Mapping, Discover the whole storyJeff Patton
Variations of these slides have been used in a variety of talks.
These slides support discussions on why stories work, and when they don't. And, on story mapping, how and why it works.
User Story Maps: Secrets for Better Backlogs and PlanningAaron Sanders
User story mapping is an intuitive way to build and organize a product backlog. During this session you’ll get hands-on experience building a user story map. You’ll learn:
How story mapping drives productive conversations with users and stakeholders.
How to plan incremental releases of your product using minimal holistic slices that deliver value at each product release.
Secrets to effective prioritization for both planning releases, and figuring out what to build next.
Tactical management of your backlog as you grow your working software to releasability.
The backlog building and managing strategies in this session will take you well beyond the agile basics.
UX is omnipresent nowadays and will grow more and more the tool of innovation. Companies are becoming aware of the vitality of adopting this technology from the start. The Importance of UX is a presentation of how we as a UX Design Team implement UX in projects.
Lean Startup + Story Mapping = Awesome Products FasterBrad Swanson
To deliver the right outcomes, you need to learn your customers needs and validate your assumptions as early as possible. This means getting an early version of your product completed to start testing, validating and improving. This session will demonstrate how to combine Lean Startup and User Story Mapping techniques to determine where to start and how to learn early and often.
Participants will start with a partially completed Lean Canvas to flesh out and then define a product roadmap by building a Story Map. We will use Lean Startup concepts of Minimal Viable Product (MVP) and validated learning to focus on outcome over output.
Learning objectives:
Understand the importance of accelerated learning and techniques to achieve it
How a Lean Canvas can help shape your product vision and MVP
How to build a story map to create a product roadmap
How to use a story map to validate your users' journey
User Story Mapping Workshop (Design Skills 2016)Bartosz Mozyrko
User Story Mapping (USM) is a top-down approach of gathering "requirements" in agile environments.
"A user story map arranges user stories into a useful model to help understand the functionality of the system, identify holes and omissions in your backlog, and effectively plan holistic releases that deliver value to users and business with each release (from Jeff Patton's The New User Story Backlog Is a Map)."
The terms UI and UX (design) are very often and
used as a single term by many people or designers.
The first thing we need to know straight is that UI
and UX are not the same.
Design is a rather broad and huge term. When
someone says “I’m a designer,” it is not that clear
what they actually do. There are a number of
different responsibilities term designer. There are
many aspects of design now a days.
A Lean Design Process for Creating Awesome UXAnnie Wang
Lean UX is a proven approach for lean startup environment. My lean UX process is based on a commonly 6 step cycle ux process. In my practice with a few startups, I found it worked better for me to split the first step “concept” into 2 steps: discovery and wireframe. Thus my process is 7 steps – discovery, Wireframe, prototype, validate internally, test externally, summarize, iterate.
Introduction to UX provides an overview of user experience design including what it encompasses and how the process works, the goal and principles of UX design, how to measure and improve UX, and the role of a UX agency. Presented by Ari Weissman, lead experience architect at EffectiveUI.
What UX is, how it works and why it matters. Train your teams to recognize and strengthen the links between customer experience indicators and your overall business performance. Learn how to work with your customers to design successful products, services and experiences.
What are User Stories? How should we write them? How to write them well?
Effective User Stories allow your team to be effective (deliver want the User needs) and efficient (Deliver it quickly and importantly don't deliver unneeded features).
User Story Mapping Workshop (Design Skills 2016)Bartosz Mozyrko
User Story Mapping (USM) is a top-down approach of gathering "requirements" in agile environments.
"A user story map arranges user stories into a useful model to help understand the functionality of the system, identify holes and omissions in your backlog, and effectively plan holistic releases that deliver value to users and business with each release (from Jeff Patton's The New User Story Backlog Is a Map)."
The terms UI and UX (design) are very often and
used as a single term by many people or designers.
The first thing we need to know straight is that UI
and UX are not the same.
Design is a rather broad and huge term. When
someone says “I’m a designer,” it is not that clear
what they actually do. There are a number of
different responsibilities term designer. There are
many aspects of design now a days.
A Lean Design Process for Creating Awesome UXAnnie Wang
Lean UX is a proven approach for lean startup environment. My lean UX process is based on a commonly 6 step cycle ux process. In my practice with a few startups, I found it worked better for me to split the first step “concept” into 2 steps: discovery and wireframe. Thus my process is 7 steps – discovery, Wireframe, prototype, validate internally, test externally, summarize, iterate.
Introduction to UX provides an overview of user experience design including what it encompasses and how the process works, the goal and principles of UX design, how to measure and improve UX, and the role of a UX agency. Presented by Ari Weissman, lead experience architect at EffectiveUI.
What UX is, how it works and why it matters. Train your teams to recognize and strengthen the links between customer experience indicators and your overall business performance. Learn how to work with your customers to design successful products, services and experiences.
What are User Stories? How should we write them? How to write them well?
Effective User Stories allow your team to be effective (deliver want the User needs) and efficient (Deliver it quickly and importantly don't deliver unneeded features).
El mapa de historias de usuario permite a los integrantes del equipo visualizar las funcionalidades del sistema de punta a punta, ayuda a definir entregables y versiones del producto.
User Story Mapping, UX Lisbon, June 2015Adrian Howard
Does your organisation have trouble keeping track of the big picture during product development? Are you working with an agile team concerned with delivering more stories rather than a great user experience? Have you ever ended up releasing a product that doesn’t actually solve the customer’s problem?
In this half day workshop you’ll learn how User Story Mapping can help. User Story Mapping is a collaborative practice that keeps the whole team focused on how and why customers use your product. Helping everybody deliver a great user experience together.
You’ll create story maps with your fellow attendees. You’ll see how they keep the whole team focussed on the customer’s experience. You’ll understand how they can be used to break down the customer journey into small chunks of work without losing sight of the big picture.
This presentation describe
What is the need for user stories in Agile project?
What is a story?
Why story?
What is criteria for a good story?
What are not stories?
Prerequisite? Knowledge of Scrum and it’s terms
We usually think of agility for software development — agility allows a small team to produce valuable software.
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This layering starts at the bottom, with Agile Software Development (the writing of quality code), and ends at the top, with Agile Portfolio Management (the management of Projects, Programs, and Products for the good of the Organization).
In this (non-technical, yet entertaining) talk Dan develops a big picture showing how all the pieces fit together in a logical model.
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User Stories and User Story Mapping by Jason JonesAgile ME
There are two eternal challenges to Software Development Projects. One is that there are always more to build than we have time or resources to do. Always! The other is that all project problems ultimately comes down to poor communication. User Stories is really the promise of a conversation and User Story Mapping is a proven way of using Stories for doing release planning. Thus, this session will address both eternal challenges. The simplicity of the technique makes it a great starting point on the agile journey for most companies and will also help you improve the User Experience of your product. Join Andreas in an interactive session filled with hands on exercises that provides you with all the tools you need to start using User Story Maps at your work place.
Learn to use the user story backlog as a way to describe user’s experience with your product.
Section 1: Importance of Product Owners Roll.
Identifying Scrum’s Product Owners roll.
Diagrammatic representation of PO Activities.
Diagrammatic representation of Product Feature Development tracks.
Section 2: User stories & Product Backlog Management.
Agile User Stories overview .
Acceptance Criteria.
Backlog Management.
Section 3: Project Scope, Product Backlog and Story Mapping.
User Story Mapping Steps.
Story Mapping example with valuable releases.
Benefits of User Story Mapping.
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Apps as Machines — ThingsCon Berlin 2014Martin Jordan
What if your favourite apps turned into little machines? What makes physical objects more emotionally engaging than apps? How do we connect to them through our natural senses and cognitive abilities?
Together we'll break down some of our favourite apps to their elementals and imagine them as physical machines. We'll examine aspects of experience which can bring us closer to the services we use everyday.
How? With a few short hands-on exercises, we'll explore the jobs-to-be-done behind popular apps. Quick prototypes and scenarios of how these might exist as machines will try to uncover what we're after.
The ‘Apps as Machines’ workshop was held during ThingsCon in May 2014 in Berlin — by Boris Anthony, Hannes Jentsch and Martin Jordan
Slides from session 1 of my User Experience class at School of Visual Concepts: Introduction to UX core principles and process, and introduction to interviewing. Learn more at http://svc-ux1.leannagingras.com/
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10 simple rules for effective presentations. Preparing and giving a presentation is a great responsibility because the outcome can totally change how the content will be perceived by the audience.
Introduction to Usability Testing for Digital MarketeersLennart Overkamp
These slides provide an introduction to usability testing for digital marketeers. This well-known method in user-centred design is used to improve products, by having participants interact with these products and by measuring their performances and responses.
I presented this topic as a guest lecturer to students attending the Minor Digital Marketing at the Fontys ICT Eindhoven at April 5th, 2017. Providing examples and best practices from Dutch digital design agency Mirabeau, I explained to them the required steps for the preparation, the moderation, and the analysis of usability tests.
This digital notebook contains the handwritten notes by Akshansh Chaudhary.
The notes are a part of the course MFA Design + Technology.
MFADT was taught at Parsons School of Design, New York.
For more content and study material, visit https://www.akshansh.net/.
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Remote sensing and monitoring are changing the mining industry for the better. These are providing innovative solutions to long-standing challenges. Those related to exploration, extraction, and overall environmental management by mining technology companies Odisha. These technologies make use of satellite imaging, aerial photography and sensors to collect data that might be inaccessible or from hazardous locations. With the use of this technology, mining operations are becoming increasingly efficient. Let us gain more insight into the key aspects associated with remote sensing and monitoring when it comes to mining.
As a business owner in Delaware, staying on top of your tax obligations is paramount, especially with the annual deadline for Delaware Franchise Tax looming on March 1. One such obligation is the annual Delaware Franchise Tax, which serves as a crucial requirement for maintaining your company’s legal standing within the state. While the prospect of handling tax matters may seem daunting, rest assured that the process can be straightforward with the right guidance. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll walk you through the steps of filing your Delaware Franchise Tax and provide insights to help you navigate the process effectively.
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20. Start with the users
▣ Who are the core users?
▣ What are they like?
▣ What do they need?
▣ What are their pain points?
▣ What is their goal?
@francessss
21. Focus on the core journey
What does the user need to
achieve to get to their goal?
Start
Goal
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22. User tasks // Features
Activities // Epics
Sub-tasks // User stories
The User Story Map
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23. What are the steps the user takes to
reach their goal?
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37. My MVP Morning
What are all the things you do
between waking up and getting to
work?
Wake
up
Get
to
work
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38. Morning
Team One
Quick Example
Getting Clean
Shower Clean teeth Style hair
Wash
hair
Adjust
temp
Wash
body
Brush
teeth
Floss
Blow
dry
Add gel
Brush
THEN THEN
AND/OR
AND/OR
AND/OR AND/OR
AND/OR
@francessss
39. Identify tasks
What are all the things
you do between first
waking up and arriving
at work?
Silent
Brainstorm
5 minutes
@francessss
40. ▣ Silent share and de-dupe
▣ Sort into tasks
▣ Group into activities
Group & de-dupe
@francessss
41. Tell the story
Arrange the tasks and activities along
the wall telling the story of the user to
your group
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49. Test with users
▣ Get them into the process
▣ Review with them the findings
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50. Document stories
▣ Put the stories into your PM tool
▣ Recommend storiesonboard.com
□ Online, living map
□ Downloadable
□ Integrates with Jira
@francessss
51. Revisit the map
▣ Get it up on the wall in your office
▣ Use it as a review tool
@francessss
52. “For the first time I can see the shape
of the whole product in front of me”
@francessss
We’re a digital agency based in Oxford
A lot of what I talk about will be from an agency point of view - I’ll talk about working with clients and different stakeholders, but it is just as applicable to internal product teams
10.05 (10 mins)
First I like to do an icebreaker in my workshops - they seem cheesy but they are very effective!
You’ll be in 3 groups of 10 today and interacting a lot. [check in groups]
So for this one you have 1 minute to write your name on a label and draw an alarm clock
Now 5 mins to go round your table introducing yourself and your alarm clock.
Great! The reason for the alarm clock will become clear later
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One guy drew his baby!
10.15 (5 mins)
Aims and principles
Background, what is it and what’s it for?
Step by step guide
We’ll have a go
A couple of tips for using it IRL
Aiming for half speaking, half doing roughly
I use these principles when we do this with clients
Lots of these principles work today too
We are all users
I hope everyone will be up for actively taking part
One conversation - in each group
This is so no knowledge is lost
No devices - this is so we concentrate and helps with the last one (keep to time) but obviously I won’t be strict on this today
10.20 (10 mins)
Just before we get going - hands up if you know the principle - keep hands up if you’ve done it before
We started doing USM in early 2014
It originated with Jeff Patton and we came to it through a blog post by Winnipeg Agile
Jeff Patton released a book explaining the process in Sept 2014 which I wholly recommend
At its simplest, this is what user story mapping does.
I’m going to talk about how we use it to outline scope for product development, but it could be used for anything that has tasks, activities and stories that need to be prioritised
I can’t stress enough how valuable the exercise is for the whole team - including the client.
It uncovers misunderstandings around terms and concepts - if the whole team can’t tell the user journey at the beginning they certainly will at the end!
Everyone does every activity - so all ideas are captured
Time
2 four hour sessions over two days
Overnight break helpful to let things sink in
Lots of breaks
Space
Wall space
Off site
Don’t make it too easy to sit down - mostly want people up and walking around
Sharpies not biros - much easier to see from afar and focuses people to be more concise
Different size and coloured index cards - they mean different things
You don’t want your masterpiece to fall down over night (this happened to us!)
13.25 (10/15 mins)
Just before we get going - hands up if you know the principle - keep hands up if you’ve done it before
This is not solution design - you should be adding tasks based on user goals rather than technical solution
We’re going to prioritise based on user goals
If you try and put only the essential tasks up into version one without a goal you’ll be debating based on no clear understanding
Setting a goal gives criteria to prioritise against
The product owner is in charge of prioritisation - they have final say.
For those not familiar, The Product Owner is nominated by the client they own the vision for the product and maintain the product backlog
We let the product owner do the first pass at prioritisation uninterrupted, then review as a team
Start with Version One
We then review the prioritisation. Is it really the minimum?
Always check each task with
You may not be able to set a goal for version 3 - it may be too far away
You should get the product owner at this point to run through the backlog again
Is there anything that is never going to happen or doesn’t seem right?
By the nature of the process, you’re bound to have some tasks that you don’t need because everyone has put up all their ideas
10.30 (10 mins overall)
Jeff Patton uses this scenario in his book which I’ve extended for us today.
Rather than try and imagine a piece of software, we’re going to use our experiences to design a day - from essential through to the best day ever.
In this scenario we are the users so shouldn’t struggle to remain user centred!
Holly and I will circulate during the exercises if you have questions and to join in
Brainstorm tasks on white index cards
10 mins
Pink cards for activities
10 mins
Time for break? 10.45
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These are great these post-its! - can easily move them around on the map
5 mins
1 nominee from each group to tell their part
15 mins
Remember we had the activity ‘getting clean’
the task ‘clean teeth’
and now adding the user story
We write them as user stories to add clarity - and if you can’t write why the user wants to do the task they’re probably not thinking from the user’s point of view
11.00
Normally we would take time reviewing the map and checking nothing was missed.
Then sleep on it
But today we’ll press on to prioritisation
Adding in the goals
Prioritise = 10 mins
----- Meeting Notes (23/10/15 11:58) -----
Work xmas party
Let’s see what we’ve got! Our MVP day consists of…
1 person from each section to read out
For each task - can we reach the goal without it?
I hope you’ve had some interesting conversations - often the conversations that happen around the map are as valuable as the map itself - they give you great insight into the product owner and the users
14.45 (5 mins)
Jeff Patton uses this scenario in his book which I’ve extended for us today.
Rather than try and imagine a piece of software, we’re going to use our experiences to design a day - from essential through to the best day ever.
In this scenario we are the users so shouldn’t struggle to remain user centred!
Leave you with a quote from a client
It’s powerful technique.
Thank you so much
Hope it was helpful
I’d love to hear how you get on if you use it - tweet me or email me