agile requirements with user story mapping

Andreas Hägglund I run projects and make organizations more efficient

Agile Requirements with User Story Mapping

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@ahab1972

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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.”

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

The Agile Onion

Agile Goal (1)

Agile Values (4)

Agile Principles (12)

Agile Methods (40+)

Agile Techniques (200+)

The Agile Onion

Agile Goal (1)

Agile Values (4)

Agile Principles (12)

Agile Methods (40+)

Agile Techniques (200+)

- User stories

- User story mapping

The Agile Manifesto

Individuals and interactions over

processes and tools

Responding to change over

following a plan

Agile is about hitting a moving

(business) target

What is the number 1 problem?

Why can’t you unders

Communication in real life

“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”

What is a User Story?

Conversation

What is a User Story?

Conversation

Confirmation

Process for writing user stories

Write Talk

Traditional Process for writing rqt

Talk Write

Write Talk

Traditional Process for writing rqt

Talk Write

”A Story is a promise

of a conversation”

The Card has 3 Parts

1. Stakeholder

2. Goal

3. Reason

The real goal of using stories is shared

understanding.

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

Topics for conversations

When, How fast, how

often, how easy, what

if no favorite, what if no

books, what if power

failure, what if...

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?

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.”

User Story Dangers

Lose sight of the big picture

Hard to tell when you’ll be done

Not enough details

It’s creative work

Image courtesy of Ben Orlin

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.

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?

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

What is a story map

User step 1

What is a story map

User step 1

User step 2

User step 3

User step 4

User step 5

User step 6

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

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

What is a story map

User step 1

User step 2

User step 3

User step 4

User step 5

User step 6

”Scope doesn’t creep;

understanding grows.”

What is a story map

User step 1

User step 2

User step 3

User step 4

User step 5

User step 6

“There’s always more to build

than we have time or resources

to build—always.”

What is a story map

User step 1

User step 2

User step 3

User step 4

User step 5

User step 6

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 14 Risk

What is a story map

User step 1

User step 2

User step 3

User step 4

User step 5

User step 6

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 14 1st release

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 14 1st release

2nd release

“Every release should be a learning experiment”

What is a story map

User step 1

User step 2

User step 3

User step 4

User step 5

User step 6

What is a story map

User step 1

User step 2

User step 3

User step 4

User step 5

User step 6

Personas

What is a story map

User step 1

User step 2

User step 3

User step 4

User step 5

User step 6

Persona Persona Persona Persona

What is a story map

User step 1

User step 2

User step 3

User step 4

User step 5

User step 6

What is a story map

User step 1

User step 2

User step 3

User step 4

User step 5

User step 6

Experiments/MVPs

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

What is a story map

User step 1

User step 2

User step 3

User step 4

User step 5

User step 6

What is a story map

User step 1

User step 2

User step 3

User step 4

User step 5

User step 6

Story mapping keeps us focused on users and their

experience, and the result is a better conversation, and

ultimately a better product.

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”

Let’s go to the Seychelles...

Write post-its to visualize your thinking, making it

possible to question and remember

Retrospect

Was it difficult?

What problems did you get?

What’s your biggest take away?

Was it fun?

Some Suggested Reading on Agile

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Andreas

Hägglund

ah@11k.se

I run projects and

make organizations

more efficient

andreashagglund

@ahab1972

slideshare.net/andreashagglund

www.kravanalys.se www.systemvaruhuset.se

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