This document discusses user story mapping and provides an example of mapping out a morning routine. It explains that user story mapping helps create a shared understanding by focusing conversations on user experiences. The mapping process involves writing individual tasks or stories, organizing them into a narrative flow, exploring alternatives, distilling the map into a backbone, and slicing tasks to achieve specific outcomes. It then demonstrates this process by mapping out tasks for different goals of getting ready in the morning, either in a rush or with more leisurely time.
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7. User Story Mapping:
• Helps focus
conversations on users
and their experience.
• Creates a shared
understanding.
8. User Story Mapping:
• Allows to slice out
your development
strategy.
• Helps to find holes in
your thinking.
16. Hit
Snooze
Stay in
bed for
another
15 min
Take a
shower
Brush
teeth
Eat
yogurt
Check
Twitter
Make
coffee
Check
weather
forecast
Story Mapping:
3. Organize your story
Use a narrative flow:
First I did this, then I did this and
then I did that….
17. Hit
Snooze
Stay in
bed for
another
15 min
Take a
shower
Brush
teeth
Eat
yogurt
Check
Twitter
Make
coffee
Check
weather
forecast
Story Mapping:
3.Explore Alternative Stories
Eat
bagel
Watch
morning
news on
TV
Have
milk
Play “What if…”, use different
personas
Alternatives,
details,
variations
18. Hit
Snooze
Stay in
bed for
another
15 min
Take a
shower
Brush
teeth
Eat
yogurt
Check
Twitter
Make
coffee
Check
weather
forecast
Story Mapping:
4.Distill Your Map to Make a Backbone
Eat
bagel
Watch
morning
news on
TV
Have
milk
Aggregate Tasks into Activities,
directed at a common goal.
Alternatives,
details,
variations
Get up FoodHygiene News
19. Hit
Snooze
Stay in
bed for
another
15 min
Take a
shower
Brush
teeth
Eat
yogurt
Check
Twitter
Make
coffee
Check
weather
forecast
Story Mapping:
5.Slice Out Task to Reach Specific Outcome
Eat
bagel
Watch
morning
news on
TV
Have
milk
Identify all task and details
relevant to a specific outcome
Alternatives,
details,
variations
Get up FoodHygiene News
GOAL:
Get
ready
fast
GOAL:
No rush,
take
your
time
21. User Story Mapping:
Morning in New York
GOAL:
Get ready in
New York
Minute
GOAL:
No rush,
take your
time…
Our MVP: Hygiene, Childcare, Get Dressed, Commute
Everything else is optional:
News, Exercise, Food, Bonding, Pet Care@DanaPylayeva
Editor's Notes
My name is Dana Pylayeva. I am a Scrum Master and Agile Coach in Rakuten Marketing.
I’ve spent last 11 years of my career working primarily with distributed teams.
In different roles and different organizations I came to count on and appreciate the diverse skill set and personalities of my distributed team members.
Just to get a sense about your background:
Who works primarily in a distributed environment?
Who has worked in at least one distributed team in the past?
Who has been lucky to work only in co-located teams?
All right, looks like just the perfect audience for this workshop!
You already know how!
Tasks a what we do.
They are building blocks of a story map.
Different level of details, different then yours.