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Supported versions: Jira Cloud and Jira Server (6.1 and higher)
Lightweight solution for high level planning
Time-saving fast story writing features for product design
Use the brainstorming mode to involve team members
Enjoy the real-time updated two-way synchronization
Prioritize backlog items effortlessly
Boost visuality by custom labels and tags
Create and schedule versions smoothly
Organize your short-term and long-term plans by drag&drop
Push a version to Jira when it's ready to execute
Three-level user story mapping for an effective product design
Fast story writing featureslet you collect user stories tremendously easy
Add unlimited details, attachments or comments to user stories
Use the intuitive brainstorming mode to get all valuable ideas
Viewers can join to the workspace in real-time and can leave comments for free
User story maps are visual aid for non-technical stakeholders
Boost visuality and team's engagement with user personas
Create a compelling BIO, add details for a better understanding
Assign personas to epics and visualize user journeys
Two way sync makes it an easy choice no matter what engineering or development team prefers.
Daniel Swid
Agile Engeneering & Customer Innovation
Integrate the user story map to JIRA project with just a few clicks
The levels on the story map will be synchronized to epics and user stories
Create versions on the story map, they are synchronized too
Descriptions and story points are mirrored and updated
Create easy-to-understand specifications
Track current iteration with real-time updated user story status
It's super easy to insert new stories in the middle of the backlog
Drag tasks between epics or releases with one movement
Use it to present the project's status
I love how easy it is to build out and arrange/rearrange a story map. The navigation features are very easy to pick up.
James Childs
Scrum Master
Schedule versions smoothly, arrange them by drag and drop
Don't let the dev team's board overloaded, push user stories to JIRA version by version
Preview what the next month or quarter look like
Planning versions is tremendously easy by arranging user stories by dragging and dropping
Sync version structure and version details to JIRA project
Ongoing project? Import JIRA backlog with just a few clicks
You'll easily find plenty of valuable education materials on the net, but let me summarize the story mapping method in 5 short steps.
First off, user story mapping is a visual product planning method, that is originally designed for white boards or office walls. It is very intuitive so it's easy to learn for non-technical participants – and involving them delivers additional value to a design process.
Thanks to online tools, the process moved to virtual white boards and can be integrated to a JIRA project.
User story mapping expends a lot of effort focusing on the end user, so you need to frame the problem and the user's goal(s).
What are the main requirements that need to be satisfied using the product?
Let's write down these goals in a narrative flow, if it's possible. For example, you're designing an online accommodation platform, where visitors can find, compare offers and book a room. Our user would find hotels, then she/he would choose one and book a room.
Now we have the product backbone, let's find out how to solve some steps. You don't need to think in features, just write down the user stories – e.g. “as a visitor I'd like to land on a clear, easy-to-understand website”.
Try to write short/smart user stories from ideas, e.g. “basic landing page” or “responsive website”, etc.
All the online story mapping tools offer a description section, so you can add notes and useful thoughts to a card. Moreover it can be used when specifying user stories or tasks. If you didn't involve a brainstorming team previously, now you should definitely do so. Remember, the more participants, the more ideas. To keep the brainstorming team focused, you can restrict ideation to a single goal or step.
You didn't need to concentrate on priority in the previous step. Now you should evaluate user stories which deliver more value or which are easy to develop. Of course, you can use your own prioritization method, or discuss it with the stakeholders.
Express priority order on the story map, and place high priority cards above others.
Continuing with our example: “basic landing page” ranked higher than “responsive landing page” and “highlighting promotions” has the lowest priority.
Prioritization gave you some guidance on where to start, but it's just a half-baked solution to schedule a dev process. You need to slice the backlog horizontally into versions. Frame the Minimum Viable Product by moving cards into the first version. Check completeness by retelling the narrative flow with the user stories.
For example: user enters the basic landing page -» search hotels by name -» filter offers by date -» rearrange results by price, etc... Can the user reach their goal? If the answer is yes, you don't need to add more items to the first release. The next step is to group user stories around working features and schedule the subsequent versions.
As I mentioned previously, doing the story mapping online provides robust opportunities to integrate your story map to Jira. Top-level cards can be synced as epics, and user stories remain the same in Jira after setting up the integration.
According to the backlog size or the product need you can link goals to epics in mid-size projects and sync steps with epics in larger projects. In addition you can send the backlog release by release, so you can keep the JIRA project clean. Then you can break user stories into tasks in the issue tracker tool.
Share project with your customers by inviting them to the story map. Customers get an intuitive view of the project and they can leave comments.
Learn more →Open the always up-to-date status reports. After inviting executives to the backlog, they can access the real-time updated status reports.
Learn more →Comparing two-level and one-level structure sync to make sure your hierarchy in Jira is translated correctly on your story map.
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