Learning Story Mapping Through Exercises. Attendees in Kitchener Waterloo – collaborating on building their Story Maps. Story Mapping is a simple tool to help you visualize your Product Backlog. The traditional Product Backlog in Scrum is a real improvement over traditional methods for tracking and understanding the work ahead. However it’s still a long To Do List which has some issues: It’s hard to see the forest for the trees.It’s easy to miss important items in the morass of detail.It’s hard to prioritize well since we can’t see the big picture.It’s not explicitly focused on the user needs. In other words, flat lists become confusing as the Product grows in size and complexity. Story Mapping is a tool to help overcome these issues by helping the team visualize the needs of the end-users. The key here is that the map acts as a tool to help organize the Stories.
The files below are from a series of Story Mapping workshops that I have facilitated in Montreal, Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo this past year. About the Author. Wiki Agilarium - 20 manières de découper les stories.