User Story Mapping

User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product is a valuable tool for software development, once you understand why and how to use it. This insightful book examines how this often misunderstood technique can help your team stay focused on users and their needs without getting lost in the enthusiasm for individual product features.

Author Jeff Patton shows you how changeable story maps enable your team to hold better conversations about the project throughout the development process. Your team will learn to come away with a shared understanding of what you’re attempting to build and why.

• Get a high-level view of story mapping, with an exercise to learn key concepts quickly
• Understand how stories really work, and how they come to life in Agile and Lean projects
• Dive into a story’s lifecycle, starting with opportunities and moving deeper into discovery
• Prepare your stories, pay attention while they’re built, and learn from those you convert to working software

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The Big Picture
Chapter 2. Plan to Build Less
Chapter 3. Plan to Learn Faster
Chapter 4. Plan to Finish on Time
Chapter 5. You Already Know How
Chapter 6. The Real Story About Stories
Chapter 7. Telling Better Stories
Chapter 8. It’s Not All on the Card
Chapter 9. The Card Is Just the Beginning
Chapter 10. Bake Stories Like Cake
Chapter 11. Rock Breaking
Chapter 12. Rock Breakers
Chapter 13. Start with Opportunities
Chapter 14. Using Discovery to Build Shared Understanding
Chapter 15. Using Discovery for Validated Learning
Chapter 16. Refine, Define, and Build
Chapter 17. Stories Are Actually Like Asteroids
Chapter 18. Learn from Everything You Build