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Story-mapping: How an Agile BA can create a better roadmap

Stephanie Vineyard Business Analysis Service Lead

Business Analyst Lead,Agile trainer and coach

Board member of the IIBA DC Chapter

CSM, CSPO, PMP, ITIL

Stephanie Vineyard

Understand an Agile BA mindset for developing requirementsUse story-maps to align user stories with product visionLearn a new technique you can apply to your work

Intentions

A step in the process.

Traditional business analysis

Agile business analysis

Part of the cycle.

How business analysis fits into the bigger picture…

BA on a Scrum team

Story mapping

The Problem

Story Maps

Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4

User Story User Story User Story User Story

User Story User Story User Story User Story

User Story User Story User Story User Story

User Story User Story User Story User Story

User’s Sequence in Time

From Jeff Patton - agileproductdesign.com

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

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Story Maps

Lower PriorityUser Stories

User stories by sprint (high priority)

Core Capabilities

Dependencies mapped across

Product DevelopmentTeams

Versions

Vision: Create a website

for a museum to share

their collection or on-site

materials online for teachers across the

country to use in their

classrooms.

Exercise

1. Create high-level features or epics per goal.

2. Arrange epics across releases – releases on X, features on Y.

3. Identify a release goal.

Directions

Sharing our stories

Digital vs Physical

Minimal Marketable Features

What would you add?

Tips for using this technique

Understand an Agile BA mindset for developing requirementsUse story-maps to align user stories with product visionLearn a new technique you can apply to your work

Were our intentions met?

Stephanie Vineyard

Stephanie.vineyard@excella.com

Twitter: @tesiemae

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smvineyard

Website: Http://www.excella.com