A crash course to user story mapping
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A step by step guide to everything you need to know for how to use this great agile technique for identifying, refining and prioritising requirements.
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A crash course to user story mapping
- 1. User Story Mapping A crash course 2017 @francessss
- 2. Welcome Frances Place I’m an Account Director at White October You can find me at @francessss
- 3. Intros Name Draw an alarm clock @francessss
- 4. 1. Getting Started A few things before we get going @francessss
- 5. Here’s what we’re aiming to cover 1. 2. 4. 3. 5. Getting started The basics Putting it into practice How to In real life @francessss
- 6. Aims ▣ Learn why USM is great ▣ Know how to give it a go ▣ Have fun! @francessss
- 7. Principles ▣ Focus on the user ▣ Everyone takes part ▣ One conversation ▣ No laptops/mobiles ▣ Keep to time @francessss
- 8. So what is user story mapping? The basics 2. @francessss
- 9. ▣ Created by Jeff Patton ▣ Guide came out in late 2014 Origins @francessss
- 10. A visual way to outline, sort and prioritise what you need to do @francessss
- 11. A prioritised visual backlog of the potential product@francessss
- 12. Turns static requirements lists into visual tools for active decision making @francessss
- 13. A tool for engagement and shared understanding@francessss
- 15. Time @francessss
- 18. Super sticky post-it notes!www.postitwar.com@francessss
- 19. A quick how-to Step by step guide 3. @francessss
- 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 @francessss
- 22. User tasks // Features Activities // Epics Sub-tasks // User stories The User Story Map @francessss
- 23. What are the steps the user takes to reach their goal? @francessss
- 25. Lay out the skeleton @francessss
- 26. Add in subtasks - user stories that add detail to the tasks As a user I want to So that I can @francessss
- 27. We are defining the what and the why, not the how @francessss
- 28. Run through the map Have we captured all of the user needs? @francessss
- 30. Version One What is the aim for Version One? Test a feature? Trial with a user type? Which user goals do we need to meet? @francessss
- 31. Version One Review Version One @francessss
- 32. Can we meet the version goal without doing this? @francessss
- 33. Version One What’s the next priority goal? Version Two @francessss
- 34. Version Three What should the third version offer? @francessss
- 35. Backlog Version One Version Two Version Three Final Map @francessss
- 36. Putting it into practice My MVP Morning 4.a @francessss
- 37. My MVP Morning What are all the things you do between waking up and getting to work? Wake up Get to work @francessss
- 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 @francessss
- 43. Add the detail As a user I want to floss So that I can protect my teeth Getting Clean Clean teeth @francessss
- 44. @francessss Use personas to set version 1 goal
- 45. Sales exec, woken up late and hungover, need to get out of house as quickly as possible @francessss Version 1 goal
- 47. A more real example Messaging App 4.b
- 48. In real life Using the technique 5. @francessss
- 49. Test with users ▣ Get them into the process ▣ Review with them the findings @francessss
- 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
Editor's Notes
- ----- Meeting Notes (23/10/15 11:58) ----- Hawaaian Tropical
- 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 ----- Meeting Notes (23/10/15 11:58) ----- 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 ----- Meeting Notes (23/10/15 11:58) ----- 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