So you’re writing User Stories — now what? In this episode we sit down with Steve Rogalsky to discuss how to leverage User Story Mapping to help organize and prioritize groups of User Stories in your project planning. Steve takes us through the process, helps us understand its value, and offers tools and techniques to make your User Story Mapping exercises a success in your organization.
Steve also shares with us that he regularly applies User Story Mapping to other aspects of his home and family life too — listen in to learn how to get your family thinking agile-ly too! 🙂
Show Notes
- How to create a user story map
- Jeff Patton’s user story mapping post
- Book: User Story Mapping by Jeff Patton from O’Reilly
- “Living with an agilist” – guest post by Steve’s wife Jen
- SmartViewApp.com
- CardBoardIt.com
Recognizing that software development culture, management, and process can be frustrating and inhibiting, Steve has invested significantly in finding ways to overcome and counteract those effects. What he’s found is that valuing simplicity, respect for people, continuous improvement, and short feedback loops are powerful tools for addressing these shortcomings. Since software development doesn’t own those frustrations Steve has also been translating what he’s learned into other areas of the organization, family life, community groups, and coaching. Steve speaks regularly at conferences in Canada and the United States, has been featured on InfoQ, co-founded the Winnipeg Agile User Group, and works at Protegra. You can read more about what he’s learned on his blog.