User Story Mapping - helping Agile Product Owners manage their product backlogs 

I can only back that. You should do more of these videos to propel your channel upwards. The level of information and how you convey them - incl hunour for enjoyment- are just really perfect. Thanks

Please make more videos on agile 🙏🙏🙏

We at Agilar love using either sticky notes on a wall or Miro.

We like Miro

haha :) The real question would be then what should I de-prioritize? Shower? Breakfast? Or you want me to wake up earlier???

Hello Alex, you're right when you say a release ( like the MVP ) can take several sprints. I understand story mapping is mainly to have a common understanding of the priorities. and then to create a big picture ( size and complexity ) remember that we can do story mapping for kanban. Therefore we do not have sprints. Also, user stories are one of the most recent types of product backlog items. my understanding is that a user story becomes an epic user story when it does not fit in one sprint. since we can not commit to completing a full epic user story in a sprint becomes advantageous to split it into smaller pieces so we still can show progress frequently.

In a Planning, the user story map will be useful to bring focus. For instance, a PO with whom I worked used her User Story Map in both the Planning and the Review. It helped her to quickly give context and focus. She at the Review: "We are here because of this (zooms out to see the full picture). We are currently focusing on this (zooms in to the release). We will talk about this (zooms in to the relevant items)". Stakeholders were always grateful that she took the 2 min to "bring them in".

Agree, multiple sources of information is impractical. You have some options though: 1) Separate Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog tools Keep the product backlog in a user story map in your tool of choice (I like Miro for the moment). When an item becomes priority and is picked up by the team in the Sprint, create it in Jira (which becomes your Sprint backlog tool), and then it continues its life-cycle there. You just update the story map to reflect when the item is delivered 2) Find tools that integrate Miro has a jira integration, for example, so you could use cards in a user story map (in Miro) and those cards are connected to Jira tickets help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017572434 3) User story map as Product Owner roadmap tool, JIRA/devops for the short-term backlog (next release) In this option you use the user story map in your tool of choice (e.g. Miro) but mainly for higher level roadmapping. So your items in the story map are larger (2-8 weeks of work). And you use that to prioritize the work and all the other beauties of user story mapping. And then when an item becomes high priority (i.e. coming up soon for the team to work on) you create the high-level item as an "epic" in jira, and then have the team split that into all the smaller items they have to deliver to achieve that "big feature". So in this scenario you use the user story map for prioritizing items of a higher level of granularity. And you use Jira/devops for splitting down those bigger items that made it into the current release we're working on. There are probably other options, these are some I frequently use with clients. Hope this helps

@@agilebeanstalk Also there's feature in the paid version of Miro that allows to connect to Jira for user story mapping so both of them are synced.

Hey, we know. Sorry about that. We did what we could to improve that recording, you can see the version with better audio here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ISi0D16PmzI.htmlsi=dK9Vwla1UR2KldF8

Yeah, we messed that up on this one. There is a better audio version here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ISi0D16PmzI.html

@@agilebeanstalk That is great - thanks so much!

Thanks for the feedback. We know. It was one of our earlier videos and we screwed up. There is an updated version of this video with better audio here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ISi0D16PmzI.htmlsi=usTv0klocsUTtgB5 We learned, our newer videos (and the ones coming up) sound better :)

I know, was one of our early ones, we screwed that up. There is a version with better audio here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ISi0D16PmzI.html

sorry, what?

I know, it was our first video and we screwed up the audio. There is a better version here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ISi0D16PmzI.html