A user story helps agile software development teams capture a simple, high-level description of user requirements, written from the user perspective. For agile software development, writing good user stories is essential. Here's why.

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.

Get the The Ultimate Guide to User Story Maps with user story mapping definitions, steps, tools, examples, and tips for success. It's everything you need to level up.

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.

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 formula - Detailed appropriately, Estimated, Emergent, and Prioritized.

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 scrum and agile team should use story points to estimate their work for more accurate estimations and better collaboration among team members.

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.

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. Here's an easy guide to show you how to develop customer personas that are vital to building user story maps.

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.

Read the 9 simple steps and create better customer personas with confidence inside your Jira ecosystem and understand and empathise with customers like never before.

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.

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.

Story Maps: A visual tool for customer focused development