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Use Case | Story Mapping Board |
Category | Planning |
Classic/Next-gen | Classic |
Summary | Method for arranging user stories to create a more holistic view of how they fit into the overall user experience. |
Detailed overview
How to create?
(1) Go to “My Boards“ section. If you do not have any active boards this going to be your default page.
Otherwise (if you already have one or few boards created) click on menu icon in top left corner to select “Manage Boards“
(2) Click on “Create board“, choose “Classic Story Mapping Board“ and Next.
(3) On the initial configuration screen please specify
Name of the board
Projects to pool Jira issues from
JQL to filter out the issues
for stories only use “issueType in (Story)”
(4) Click “Create“
How to use?
(1) You will receive a board with all applicable Jira issues in “Others“ left column
(2) Navigate between the swimlanes and click “+” to add first Jira version (Release).
Add more upcoming Releases if you like
(3) Click “+” column to add Epics.
Add few more Epics comprising your backlog.
(4) Drag and drop issues between columns/swimlanes to assign Jira issues to a) appropriate Epic b) appropriate Version. All the changes to Assignee field are applied automatically and you do not need to commit it after.
(5) To Edit column value, Change title, Add or Remove one move mouse to selected column and you will receive a tooltip with all the available options:
(6) Same applies to swimlanes: - navigate your mouse to one of them to Add, Edit or Delete
How to configure?
(1) Click settings icon in top right corner ..
.. to open “Board configuration“ screen.
(2) on “General” Tab you can amend
Name of the board
Projects to pool Jira issues from
JQL to filter out the issues
(3) on “Columns and Swimlanes“ tab you can change configuration of fields used respectively for Columns and Swimlanes. Swimlanes are optional. To remove them choose “-- none -- “ in popup.
For the Classic projects Epic Link field should be used to reference the Epics. This is different in Next-gen projects, where Parent is used. Read more about UC: Next-gen Story Mapping Board
References
User Story Mapping is probably the most popular theme / technique in Agile Community. So, without a doubt you will find a lot of good materials to learn from. We will just recommend a few
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