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Story Mapping for UX Practitioners:
Tying Agile & UX Together

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Jeff Patton

Jeff Patton

AgileProductDesign.com

Length: 90 minutes

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You work in an Agile environment, or are about to, and struggle with knitting UX thinking more closely into the organization’s iterative process. An Agile environment forces UX professionals to think about the delivery of their product in small bite-sized pieces. That’s contrary to holistic thinking of the larger, human-sized pieces that best fit the experience you want to design.

Story mapping is a way of organizing Agile user stories that communicate user experience. It allows us to build the collection of stories that become the backlog. Agile expert Jeff Patton will show you how story mapping gives you a tool: a tool to both quickly think through and simply describe the user experience. This strong technique helps you put the big picture of UX and the little pictures of Agile in one place, engaging the developers and stakeholders you’re working with.

Users will always have an experience with your product. Story mapping will pull your UX focus into your organization’s process and ensure that experience is a great one.

How to build a story map—something you already use—from scratch

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You’ll learn to keep the focus on what people are doing, while decomposing into the things your organization designs, and how development happens.

  • Bring user experience to the project early and often, while still letting the Agile folks move forward in their process of breaking everything down into little pieces
  • Explore ways of describing user experience with Agile stories, and get involved with the “what to build” part

How to overcome the Agile dogma that often starts projects off on the wrong foot

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You’ve heard stories and are suspicious, or maybe even had an experience of your own.

  • Make sense and avoid trouble in your projects when talking about the user experience, something seemingly antithetical to the agile process
  • Story mapping gives you an intermediate structure to represent both the big business “whys” and the specific development “whats” of what the user is trying to do

Why the story mapping vocabulary can alleviate the lack of common understanding that comes with tying Agile & UX together

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Between project management, developers, and the UX contingent, you can get everyone on the same page with the terms you introduce and define.

  • Use language that still helps you plan and track progress, but doesn’t lose the user experience
  • Succeed in working with others on your team who may not be UX-literate, using story mapping as a conversation piece and a collaborative element

You can put this process in place for projects you’re working on right now

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Regardless of how far along your team is on a project, it’s never too late to put this technique in play.

  • Take control of current projects. Use story mapping to ensure the user experience is an integral part of the product you deliver
  • Reap the rewards of story mapping when you’re stuck, or unsure of next steps, even several iterations into a project

A team deep in the Agile process need things at a certain time, in a certain way. That’s foreign to the traditional UX effort. Story mapping is a way to merge these two worlds. Jeff will dig into why the two approaches are different, and what user experience professionals will do in this Agile environment.

Start story mapping in your agile environment and you’ll be tightly integrated as active team members in the whole development process, and not added as an afterthought. Others will see you as a critical contributor to the process of what to build, and in framing and delivering your product.

Why Jeff Patton?

Jeff Patton

Sure, Jeff is the guy who gets credit with giving this process a name. What we love about Jeff is how he adds structure to exploring a technique like story mapping. He’s also fantastic about sharing plenty of real-world examples and offering up tips and techniques that help you have immediate success.

Jeff Patton has designed and developed software for the past 14 years on a wide variety of projects from on-line aircraft parts ordering to electronic medical records. Jeff has focused on Agile approaches since working on an early Extreme Programming team in 2000. In particular Jeff has specialized in the application of user centered design techniques to improve Agile requirements, planning, and products.

Some of his recent writing on the subject can be found at www.AgileProductDesign.com and Alistair Cockburn’s Crystal Clear. His forthcoming book to be released in Addison-Wesley’s Agile Development Series gives tactical advice to those seeking to deliver useful, usable, and valuable software.

Jeff works currently as an independent consultant, is founder and list moderator of the agile-usability Yahoo discussion group, a columnist with StickyMinds.com and IEEE Software, and a winner of the Agile Alliance’s 2007 Gordon Pask Award for contributions to Agile Development.

Purchase the RECORDING $149

You can Get Lifetime Access
to this seminar for
your entire organization!

Steering Iterative and Incremental Delivery with Jeff Patton

A special 32 minute follow up to this presentation.

Steering Iterative and Incremental Delivery with Jeff Patton
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