Story Mapping - what is it?
Is an agile method for developing user stories. The task is to begin assume the role of a user for the application and to document the tasks or stories that a user will do while interacting with the application. Stories are then mapped on a board like a time line with the critically of the stories ranked in a vertical axis. The goal of the exercise is to represent stories as a workflow, and end to end set of tasks that a user will likely do when they are interacting with the application.
Notes
- an inpromptu effort by Charles Kerns, Jennifer Vine, Katherine Kott, Lynn Yarmey, Hannah Frost and Michael Olson to apply an agile story mapping effort to Hypatia development
- focused on the general user (patron) of the application for this effort as we know the least about this type of user
- effort is to right out tasks that a user will do on post-it-notes and then align them based on chronology and criticallity
- using the story mapping process we identified 6 iterations. Iterations are decided based on the smallest unit of usable functionality.
- discovered that registration component missing from previous planning docs
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