The best practices that will help you to map users stories. Helpful advice and useful templates inside for scrum masters and agile team. To learn more: https://realtimeboard.com/blog/how-scrum-masters-use-realtimeboard-for-user-story-mapping/

1. How Scrum masters
use RealtimeBoard
for user story mapping
The main steps towards creating value
for your customers

2. User story mapping is an Agile approach for release
planning that is widely used by software companies.
The story map consists of user stories that are ordered in
two independent dimensions.
The horizontal axis represents the order of goals from the
user’s point of view, and they describe the behavior of the
system.
The vertical axis represents the increasing sophistication
of implementation.
What is user story mapping?

3. In the past, teams willing to map user stories had to
gather in a large conference room equipped with
whiteboards and bring a variety of office supplies to tag
and label the map. After the session, they had to take
photos of the wall to save all the information and pass it
to remote workers.
This is how you can do user story mapping in
RealtimeBoard, an online whiteboard for seamless
collaboration between Scrum Masters and Product Teams.
How to do user story mapping with
your team?

4. To start user story mapping, create and name a board in
RealtimeBoard.
Choose the “User Story Map” template.
Invite your team members to the board by opening the
“Share” settings.
When they accept the invitation, every individual edit is
viewable and saved.
Setting up

5. The main idea of the user
story workshop is to discuss
the stories, come up with an
updated vision and finally
write down several sentences
that can easily describe
the whole picture.
If your Product Owner or customer is isolated from the
Development Team, you will probably not build
something of value for the end user. Using
RealtimeBoard, you can invite remote collaborators to
participate in the event.
Building a story map
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6. You can use comments, screen sharing, chats and video
chats inside our tool.
Another purpose of writing and discussing user stories is
to choose the most valuable solution from a variety of
options the team found.
In RealtimeBoard, all team members can add tags to the
cards to separate stories into different groups.
Estimating user stories

7. To enrich your stories, you can add wireframes, tables and
icons to the board.
To open the library, click “Add Files” > “Wireframes.”
Choose from a wide range of objects for a web page/
mobile app layout. Drag and drop the object anywhere
you need on the board.
To add an icon, click the “+Insert” menu, choose
“Iconfinder” and pick one of the suggestions or use the
Search line to find the icons you need. Then click the icon
or drag and drop it on to the board.
Estimating user stories

8. If you are creating your own template for user story
mapping instead of a pre-existing one, you can select it for
future Sprints.
Select a group of objects and choose “Save as a template”
in the “Context” menu or choose the “Save as a template”
option in the “Export this board” menu.
The whole board will be saved as a template!
Saving a template

9. — Independent;
— Negotiable;
— Estimable;
— Valuable to users or customers;
— Small;
— Testable.
What is a good user story?
It is:

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