Story-mapping: How an Agile BA can create a better roadmap
Stephanie Vineyard Business Analysis Service Lead
Business Analyst Lead,Agile trainer and coach
Board member of the IIBA DC Chapter
CSM, CSPO, PMP, ITIL
Stephanie Vineyard
Understand an Agile BA mindset for developing requirementsUse story-maps to align user stories with product visionLearn a new technique you can apply to your work
Intentions
A step in the process.
Traditional business analysis
Agile business analysis
Part of the cycle.
How business analysis fits into the bigger picture…
BA on a Scrum team
Story mapping
The Problem
Story Maps
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 MapsStory Maps visualize the overall product, and thereby help to convey the “Big Picture”
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Story Maps
Lower PriorityUser Stories
User stories by sprint (high priority)
Core Capabilities
Dependencies mapped across
Product DevelopmentTeams
Versions
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
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
Sharing our stories
Digital vs Physical
Minimal Marketable Features
What would you add?
Tips for using this technique
Understand an Agile BA mindset for developing requirementsUse story-maps to align user stories with product visionLearn a new technique you can apply to your work
Were our intentions met?
Stephanie Vineyard
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