User Story Mapping for JIRA
The product backlog rapid board is normally a flat ordered list. This can make visualizing a minimum viable product (MVP) challenging as you hop around different key functionality areas (the backbone — typically epics) of the user stories and have to imagine how each story maps back to epics or keep switching views between epics and user stories. With Easy Agile User Story Maps for JIRA by Arijea for JIRA Server this problem is solved.
The tool offers a visualization of the end to end story backbone (the epics) with the user stories, in priority order, under each of these epics. You can then draw a cut line across the backbone to deliver the MVP. Below is Nick Muldoon doing a demo. Up until recently Twitter used whiteboards for user story mapping — with this tool it is digital, integrated with JIRA and great for distributed teams with remote team members. Ultimately it brings the backlog to life — a set of epics & user stories that truly tell an end to end, customer focused, story. We are currently testing this out in our staging environment and like what we see!
For more information on User Story Mapping I highly recommend Jeff Patton’s User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product.
