Story Mapping

Gaslight Lightning Talk

Doug Alcorn, doug@gaslight.co

Wildly stolen from Jeff Patton's The new user story backlog is a map

Shrinking Stories

• 1, 2 or 3 week estimate in "ideal development time"
• 1 to 3 week iterations; 1 month sprints
• "Less than 1 week and you are at too detailed a level, combine some stories."
• "About 80 user stories plus or minus 20 is a perfect number to create a release plan during release planning."

Maintaining Context in the Backlog

Breaking it Down