The essential guide for agile teams who want to use user story maps. From user story mapping definitions and steps, to tools, examples, and tips for success.

Why Lyft choose Easy Agile for their digital user story mapping.

Agile sprint planning sets up the success of each sprint. A great sprint planning session involves prioritizing backlog items and identifying your team capacity.

The customer journey map (CJM) involves epic storytelling and comprehensive planning to capture the design process and deliver a unique customer experience.

While software development doesn’t favor use cases vs. user stories, use cases offer many advantages, including more context, a planning skeleton, and more.

These five agile estimation techniques help prioritize a backlog so sprint planning is simple and fast. The bottom line? The most important work goes first.

Agile story point estimation helps team members see a product’s priorities and the effort each item needs. It also gives you room to refine your story mapping.

Jira add-ons are key to helping agile teams complete projects well and on time. A few of our favorites are from Pivot Report, JMWE, and (of course), Easy Agile.

Learn how to ensure your product backlog is in excellent health by following the DEEP acronym.

Thoughtful Sprint Planning meetings are key to a project’s success. At this 1-2 hour event, the Scrum team discusses the components of an upcoming sprint.

T-shirt sizing is one of many agile estimation techniques that helps predict workloads and set realistic deadlines. It’s usually used to provide rough estimates.

A sprint backlog should be continually updated to reflect market changes and customer needs. Here’s how sprint backlogs and their updates fit into agile teams.

Agile planning not only helps the team and stakeholders understand the upcoming project. It’s an ongoing process that adapts to changes as they occur.

Learn everything you need to know about buyer personas, including why they’re beneficial, how to create buyer personas, and a simple persona template to get you started.

Why every agile team should try using story points to estimate their work

Remote user story mapping is quickly becoming the norm for agile teams. We cover 8 key considerations for a successful online user story mapping event.

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There are some things so obvious that you wonder why it hasn’t happened sooner or how you ever lived without it. This is how we feel about our just-launched integration between Easy Agile User Story Maps and Easy Agile Personas.

Get a clear user story mapping definition. We break down the components of user story mapping, alternatives, and what it looks like.

Great agile teams have a crystal clear image of who their customer is. Customer personas help bring to life the hopes, dreams and pain points of your customer so that you build features with empathy and care.

Why is user story mapping so popular? In this post we cover why you should consider running story mapping sessions with your team and how to get started building your first story map.

Not sure how to create a persona or want to make sure you’ve covered all your bases? Follow these 9 simple steps and create better customer personas with confidence.

Do you know your customers? As in, really know them? Let’s take a look at 7 reasons why it’s good to have a healthy level of customer obsession in your agile teams.

The idea of writing good user stories can seem like another “thing” agile piles on top. However for Agile Software Development, writing good user stories is essential. Here's why.

Customer Personas are fictional generalisations of your most valuable customers. They help teams understand their customers by bringing together demographic information like age, gender, location, and income, alongside psychographic information like interests, frustrations and personal/professional motivations.

Visualise the customer journey with user story mapping.

Atlassian Summit 2016 had a ton of great content. One of our highlights was watching a packed room learn how Twitter uses the practice of story mapping to make sure they understand and deliver a compelling customer experience.

Story Maps: A visual tool for customer focused development