Gathering requirements and drafting Product Specification Documents are often time consuming and fail to provide the expected benefit. For Agile projects we need a better method for figuring out what it is we need to build and so we normally have user stories. Unfortunately, a long list of user stories in a product backlog can be difficult to understand because a flat backlog makes the context of a story difficult to grasp. Story Mapping, a method pioneered by Jeff Patton, is an excellent way to gather requirements into stories as well as provide the appropriate context for those stories to be understood.

In this workshop, you will learn about story mapping as well as apply your learnings to creating a story map of your own. You will also be equipped to return to your team and facilitate your own story mapping session.