The gap finder found the hole I dug
The backlog could create and complete work, but missed the lifecycle in between. A story map gap analysis exposed the trust and platform gaps.
82 cards in four hours — but which 82?
Claude created 82 backlog cards in four hours. The reliable part was the foundations checklist, approval checkpoint, and final read-back.
Story Mapping for Program Increments (PI) Planning
How to connect SAFe PI planning to real user journeys without losing meaning at every layer of the hierarchy and why the story map is the one artefact SAFe cannot … Read more
Story Mapping for Enterprise Migrations
How to move 50,000 users from a legacy system to a new platform without breaking their work and why the map is the only artefact that makes it possible. What … Read more
I uploaded a spec and almost built the wrong product
A plausible AI-generated backlog nearly described the wrong product. The missing step was not a better prompt, but explicit product discovery.