Agile Requirements with User Story Mapping
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The document discusses agile methodologies and emphasizes the importance of user story mapping in improving project efficiency and communication. It highlights key agile principles, including iterative development and the value of shared understanding through user stories. Additionally, it promotes the use of minimal viable products (MVPs) and encourages ongoing learning from releases to enhance organizational outcomes.
Agile Requirements with User Story Mapping
- 1. Andreas Hägglund I run projects and make organizations more efficient Agile Requirements with User Story Mapping 11K slideshare.net/andreashagglund @ahab1972 andreashagglund
- 2. Questions are more important than Answers “The mere formulation of a problem is often far more essential than its solution which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.” 11K
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- 4. What is Agile? Well... Agile is not Happy Hacking It’s not unorganized It’s not unstructured It’s not unplanned It’s not undocumented It’s not undisciplined Fact is – It’s extremely disciplined 11K
- 5. The Agile Onion Agile Goal (1) Agile Values (4) Agile Principles (12) Agile Methods (40+) Agile Techniques (200+) 11K
- 6. The Agile Onion Agile Goal (1) Agile Values (4) Agile Principles (12) Agile Methods (40+) Agile Techniques (200+) 11K - User stories - User story mapping
- 7. The Agile Manifesto Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Responding to change over following a plan 11K
- 8. Agile is about hitting a moving (business) target 11K
- 9. What is the number 1 problem? Why can’t you unders 11K
- 10. Communication in real life 11K
- 11. “At the end of the day, your job isn’t to execute a plan or get the requirements right— your job is to change the world” 11K
- 12. What is a User Story? Card 11K
- 13. What is a User Story? Conversation Card 11K
- 14. What is a User Story? Conversation Confirmation Card 11K
- 15. Process for writing user stories Write Talk 11K
- 16. Process for writing user stories Write Talk Traditional Process for writing rqt Talk Write 11K
- 17. Process for writing user stories Write Talk Traditional Process for writing rqt Talk Write ”A Story is a promise of a conversation” 11K
- 18. The Card has 3 Parts 1. Stakeholder 2. Goal 3. Reason The real goal of using stories is shared understanding. 11K
- 19. As a Book Lover I want to Search for books by my favorite writer so that I easily find new things to read Example of Card 11K
- 20. Topics for conversations As a Book Lover I want to Search for books by my favorite writer so that I easily find new things to read 11K
- 21. Topics for conversations As a Book Lover I want to Search for books by my favorite writer so that I easily find new things to read When, How fast, how often, how easy, what if no favorite, what if no books, what if power failure, what if... 11K
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- 23. Thinking pattern Let’s see... Hmmm, who wants to print a receipt? And why? Can it be so that (s)he can remember the price afterwards? Or is it maybe to claim warranty? 11K
- 24. Templates As ”X” I want ”Y” so that ”Z” As ”X” I want ”Y” By having ”Y” I get ”Z” as ”X” Main Job To Be Done (JTBD) “Stories get their name from how they should be used, not what should be written.” 11K
- 25. User Story Dangers Lose sight of the big picture Hard to tell when you’ll be done Not enough details 11K
- 26. It’s creative work Image courtesy of Ben Orlin 11K
- 27. Story mapping work process • Frame the opportunity • Tell the story of the product (user steps) from left-to-right • Go back and talk about the details of each step. • Write those details down on post-its and place them vertically under each step. 11K
- 28. Framing the opportunity What is the “big idea”? Who are the people/companies that will pay for the product? Who are the real life users at the customer site? What problem are we solving for the customer companies? For the users? What benefit will we provide to them? What will we get if we’re successful? 11K
- 29. What is a story map “User Story Mapping is about having a good old-fashioned conversation and then organizing it in the form of a map” – Jeff Patton 11K
- 30. What is a story map User step 1 11K
- 31. What is a story map User step 1 User step 2 User step 3 User step 4 User step 5 User step 6 11K
- 32. What is a story map User step 1 User step 2 User step 3 User step 4 User step 5 User step 6 Time/Sequence 11K
- 33. What is a story map User step 1 User step 2 User step 3 User step 4 User step 5 User step 6 Details User story 6 Details User story 5 Details User story 4 11K
- 34. What is a story map User step 1 User step 2 User step 3 User step 4 User step 5 User step 6 Details User story 6 Details User story 5 Details User story 4 ”Scope doesn’t creep; understanding grows.” 11K
- 35. What is a story map User step 1 User step 2 User step 3 User step 4 User step 5 User step 6 Details User story 6 Details User story 5 Details User story 4 Priority “There’s always more to build than we have time or resources to build—always.” 11K
- 36. Details User story 12 Details User story 13 Details User story 8 Details User story 2 What is a story map User step 1 User step 2 User step 3 User step 4 User step 5 User step 6 Details User story 6 Details User story 5 Details User story 4 Details User story 3 Details User story 9 Details User story 10 Details User story 16 Details User story 15 Details User story 14 11K
- 37. Details User story 12 Details User story 13 Details User story 8 Details User story 2 What is a story map User step 1 User step 2 User step 3 User step 4 User step 5 User step 6 Details User story 6 Details User story 5 Details User story 4 Details User story 3 Details User story 9 Details User story 10 Details User story 16 Details User story 15 Details User story 14Risk 11K
- 38. Details User story 12 Details User story 13 Details User story 8 Details User story 2 What is a story map User step 1 User step 2 User step 3 User step 4 User step 5 User step 6 Details User story 6 Details User story 5 Details User story 4 Details User story 3 Details User story 9 Details User story 10 Details User story 16 Details User story 15 Details User story 14Risk 11K
- 39. Details User story 12 Details User story 13 Details User story 8 Details User story 2 What is a story map User step 1 User step 2 User step 3 User step 4 User step 5 User step 6 Details User story 6 Details User story 5 Details User story 4Risk Details User story 3 Details User story 9 Details User story 10 Details User story 16 Details User story 15 Details User story 141st release 11K
- 40. Details User story 12 Details User story 13 Details User story 8 Details User story 2 What is a story map User step 1 User step 2 User step 3 User step 4 User step 5 User step 6 Details User story 6 Details User story 5 Details User story 4Risk Details User story 3 Details User story 9 Details User story 10 Details User story 16 Details User story 15 Details User story 141st release 2nd release “Every release should be a learning experiment” 11K
- 41. Details User story 12 Details User story 13 Details User story 8 Details User story 2 What is a story map User step 1 User step 2 User step 3 User step 4 User step 5 User step 6 Details User story 6 Details User story 5 Details User story 4Risk Details User story 3 Details User story 9 Details User story 10 Details User story 16 Details User story 15 Details User story 14 11K
- 42. Details User story 12 Details User story 13 Details User story 8 Details User story 2 What is a story map User step 1 User step 2 User step 3 User step 4 User step 5 User step 6 Details User story 6 Details User story 5 Details User story 4Risk Details User story 3 Details User story 9 Details User story 10 Details User story 16 Details User story 15 Details User story 14 Personas 11K
- 43. Details User story 12 Details User story 13 Details User story 8 Details User story 2 What is a story map User step 1 User step 2 User step 3 User step 4 User step 5 User step 6 Details User story 6 Details User story 5 Details User story 4Risk Details User story 3 Details User story 9 Details User story 10 Details User story 16 Details User story 15 Details User story 14 Persona Persona PersonaPersona 11K
- 44. Details User story 12 Details User story 13 Details User story 7 Details User story 8 Details User story 2 Details User story 1 What is a story map User step 1 User step 2 User step 3 User step 4 User step 5 User step 6 Details User story 6 Risk Details User story 5 Details User story 4Risk Details User story 3 Details User story 9 Details User story 10 Details User story 16 Details User story 15 Details User story 14 Details User story 11 Persona Persona PersonaPersona 11K
- 45. Details User story 12 Details User story 13 Details User story 7 Details User story 8 Details User story 2 Details User story 1 What is a story map User step 1 User step 2 User step 3 User step 4 User step 5 User step 6 Details User story 6 Risk Details User story 5 Details User story 4Risk Details User story 3 Details User story 9 Details User story 10 Details User story 16 Details User story 15 Details User story 14 Details User story 11 Persona Persona PersonaPersona Experiments/MVPs 11K
- 46. MVP The minimum viable product is the smallest product release that successfully achieves its desired outcomes. A minimal viable product is also the smallest thing you could create or do to prove or disprove an assumption. All assumptions Entire Product 11K
- 47. Details User story 12 Details User story 13 Details User story 7 Details User story 8 Details User story 2 Details User story 1 What is a story map User step 1 User step 2 User step 3 User step 4 User step 5 User step 6 Details User story 6 Risk Details User story 5 Details User story 4Risk Details User story 3 Details User story 9 Details User story 10 Details User story 16 Details User story 15 Details User story 14 Details User story 11 GoalGoalGoalGoal GoalGoal Goal Persona Persona PersonaPersona 11K
- 48. Details User story 12 Details User story 13 Details User story 7 Details User story 8 Details User story 2 Details User story 1 What is a story map User step 1 User step 2 User step 3 User step 4 User step 5 User step 6 Details User story 6 Risk Details User story 5 Details User story 4Risk Details User story 3 Details User story 9 Details User story 10 Details User story 16 Details User story 15 Details User story 14 Details User story 11 GoalGoalGoalGoal GoalGoal Goal Persona Persona PersonaPersona 11K
- 49. Story mapping keeps us focused on users and their experience, and the result is a better conversation, and ultimately a better product. 11K
- 50. Always remember: “At the end of the day, your job isn’t to execute a plan or get the requirements right — your job is to change the world” 11K
- 51. Let’s go to the Seychelles... 11K
- 52. Write post-its to visualize your thinking, making it possible to question and remember 11K
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- 54. Retrospect Was it difficult? What problems did you get? What’s your biggest take away? Was it fun? 11K
- 55. Some Suggested Reading on Agile http://buff.ly/1Q9lnHy 11K
- 56. Agile Middle East • Community Organization promoting Lean and Agile Development Practices in the Middle East • Members from Saudi, UAE, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon and more • Organizes Agile ME Summit on March 19 11K
- 57. Agile ME Summit 2016 http://2016.meagile.com/ 11K
- 59. Andreas Hägglund ah@11k.se I run projects and make organizations more efficient andreashagglund @ahab1972 slideshare.net/andreashagglund www.kravanalys.se www.systemvaruhuset.se 11K
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