Story Mapping

 

Krisztina Szerovay

The Essence of Story Mapping

Story Mapping is a highly collaborative method that uses visual thinking and aims at establishing a shared understanding in a cross-functional product team.

It’s not just another mapping method. I believe that it is one of the best ways to bring the different “worlds” of design, development and business together during a product development process.

In the next part of the series, I’m going to explain the process itself in more details, and I’ll also give you some advice.

This sketch summarizes the main steps of a Story Mapping process, and I also give you some advice. The most important thing is that

• if you’ve invited all the key team members (e.g. product owners, developers), and
• if you have a humble, open-minded approach, so for instance you are ready to question your assumptions,

you can’t go wrong with this method, it’s going to help you start important conversations needed for an efficient product development process.

Recommended Reading & Useful Links

• Patton, J. (2014). User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product
• Gothelf, J., Seiden, J. (2016). Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams

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