Accelerate Your VisionMapping Your MVP Product Development in 30 Minutes or Less

Rob JacquesProduct Managerrob@codescience.com@inittowinit210

Jake WillsProduct Managerjake@codescience.com@jwills

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Agile Product ManagementWhy is Story Mapping Important?

Source: HCLS Industries Team

Agile and User StoriesOverview

What is Agile?

A group of software development methodologies with the following features:

•Iterative and incremental development•Requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration•Teams are self-organizing and cross-functional •Adaptive planning, evolutionary development and delivery•A time-boxed iterative approach•A rapid and flexible response to change.

“Priorities” vs. “Scope” (Bang for the Buck)

Adjust to New Information Quickly

Monitor and Control Mechanisms

Collaboration vs. Antagonism

Working Code Every Two Weeks

Continuous Feedback (“Fail Fast”)

A Great Fit with SFDC & Cloud Computing Technologies

Why Agile?

A user story represents a small piece of business value that a team can deliver in an iteration. While traditional requirements (like use cases) try to be as detailed as possible at the outset, a user story is defined incrementally.

1. User stories usually start off as an Epic, or a work item too large to be conceptualized by a developer.

a. e.g. “The ability to purchase a product”

2. Story preparation exercises, inclusive of design outputs, refine larger Epic level stories into their component

Features.

a. e.g. “Shopping Cart”, “Products Catalog”

3. Further preparation decomposes features into buildable units of work that a Scrum team can fully deliver in

an iteration. These are User Stories.

a. e.g. “As a consumer I want to be able to add products to my shopping cart so that I can purchase”

Epics, Features, User Stories

User Stories are consumed by the Scrum team at the beginning of each iteration from the stack-rank prioritized product backlog for work. This is a vertical list of User Stories.

This list is incredibly useful to the Scrum team. They pick from the top until the

iteration is full. It is critical to maintain this artifact continuously so that the Scrum team

experiences no ambiguity about work priority.

Product Owners, however, have a very difficult time maintaining this priority due to the

fact that as soon as the list grows beyond 15-25 user stories, our brains lose the ability

to sort and remember disparate feature build order and overall product context.

In the face of that very serious problem, what is the solution?

Product Backlog

User Story MappingThe What, Why, and How

Product Backlogs always start easy to manage. Very soon you have hundreds of stories.

Q: How is a product owner to prioritize this many items effectively?

Q: How do we communicate the product at large to a wider audience?

Q: How do we understand incremental enhancement via releases?

A: User Story Map!

Why Map User Stories?

Epics:• Large, system level functions• The breadth of the product• X-Axis is priority

Features:• The breadth of an Epic, all the features that

comprise that system function

User Stories:• Stack-ranked priority• Use color, marker, and fill to reflect status• Grouping to reflect Release Plan (MVP)

Introducing the User Story Map

The User Story Map is a living document, owned by the Product Owner.

As User Stories are created, deleted, refined, and reprioritized, the User Story Map should reflect reality at a given moment in time.

Let’s make one ourselves!

Refine the Map!

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