How to Rob A Bank: An Overview of User Story Mapping - IIBA MSP · 2015-06-01 · Story Maps...

How to Rob A Bank:

An Overview of User Story Mappingpresented at IIBA Minneapolis/ St. Paul

Mike Stuedemann, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSP

Certified Scrum Professional & Agile Coach

http://collaborativeleadershipteam.com

@CoLeadTeam

http://collaborativeleadershipteam.com/

Mike Stuedemann PMP, PMI-ACP, CSP

• 17+ years Information Technology -

traditional SDLC and Scrum/Agile

• Practicing Agile since 2007

• Certified Scrum Professional

• Active member in the Scrum Alliance

and the PMI-MN Agile Practitioner

Community

• Married with 3 Boys - based in

Andover, MN

Copyright 2015 Collaborative Leadership Team 2

User Story Mapping Agenda

• What’s a User Story?

• What’s the Problem?

• What’s a User Story Map and how can it help

me?

• “How to Rob a Bank” – A User Story Map

Exercise

• Wrap-Up

3Copyright 2015 Collaborative Leadership Team

What is a User Story?

• A User Story is a

requirement or

feature expressed

briefly from the user’s

perspective

• Describe who has a

particular need or

want, what that need

or want is and why

they need it



• A technique from Extreme

Programming

• Many using Scrum adopt

this technique for

capturing items on the

Product Backlog but

Scrum does not prescribe

this

• A note about the format

shown at the right



• Stories are traditionally

written on note cards

• Cards may be annotated with

estimates, notes, etc.

• Details behind the story

come out during

conversations between

stakeholders, product owner

and team

• Acceptance tests confirm that

the story was coded correctly

Card

Conversation

Confirmation


What’s the Issue?


The First Issue…


The Second Issue…


Story Maps

Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4

User Story User Story User Story User Story




User’s Sequence in Time

Activitiesare

functional behaviors of the user

User Stories are narrative descriptions of the features needed by the user to perform those activities

Story Maps visualize the overall product, and thereby help to convey the “Big Picture”


How to Create a Story Map

1. Discuss Activities associated with the Product /

Service

2. Sequence the Activities

3. Add Tasks (As Necessary)

4. Brainstorm and discuss User Stories

associated with the Activities

5. Shift the User Stories vertically based on their

business priority


Story Map Example

Activities

Tasks

Higher PriorityUser Stories

Lower PriorityUser Stories


Reference: www.agileproductdesign.com

http://www.agileproductdesign.com/

The Benefits of a Story Map

• Provide Story Context

• Shows Relationship between Stories

• Make value delivery visible

• Allows for Ordering of Stories by Business Value

• Allows the identification of valuable product slice


Reference: www.agileproductdesign.com

http://www.agileproductdesign.com/

Story Maps – Allow us to “walk” Personas

through Features

Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4





User’s Sequence in Time

Soccer Mom

Millennial

Hacker • Walk each persona through the user sequence• Discover gaps in the user stories & how they support

the user activities


Disclaimer


Exercise: How to Rob a Bank

• The Setting: You are a self-organizing team planning to rob a bank

• Your Challenge:

– Create a User Story Map describing the necessary activities from the time you arrive at the bank until the time you leave the bank

• Guidelines:– Time box: 20 minutes

– Remember: Things can always change…


Exercise: How to Rob A Bank – A Change in

Timing?


Story-Mapping in the “Real World”


A Reminder….


“Remember: at the end of the day, your job isn’t to

get the requirements right – it’s to change the

world”

– Jeff Patton

How to Rob A Bank: An Overview of User

Story Mapping – Summary

• The purpose of a User Story is conversation, not a

document

• A flat list of User Stories does not provide context – it is

easy to lose site of the product being built and the

relationship of the Stories to one another

• User Story Maps are a tool to both facilitate conversation

and provide context

• Please don’t rob a bank


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