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The Ultimate Guide to User Story Mapping [2023 Guide]
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Read more“There are some features that make life so easy to manage dependencies. It is not only about the visualization of them but also creating dependencies. That is two things I love most about the tool.”
NFON is a leading cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) provider, helping over 50,000 customers and working with over 3,000 partners across Europe. As part of their goal to create a more agile company, the business is undergoing a company-wide transformation led by Agile Transition Leader Stefan Höhn.
A major challenge during this project was managing dependencies across a large development team. “We still have over 100 people working on designing and developing our services. This means we have around 14 to 15 teams with many dependencies, so we needed to find a way to manage this process better,” said Stefan.
"The ability to look at increments while we’re planning is probably one of the biggest things that is helping us in our day-to-day”
Suncorp is one of Australia's largest financial services companies, offering a range of insurance and banking solutions across Australia and New Zealand. When the organization recently changed direction to focus on a more agile path, Scrum Master Dexter Driver quickly saw they needed to find a better way to complete the planning process.
“My advice for others considering Easy Agile Programs is not to wait. This tool's brought a lot of success in a short period of time for our Agile practices in our organization.”
AF Group is on a mission to provide innovative insurance solutions and deliver exceptional customer experiences via its network of affiliate brands. As part of this mission, the group embarked on an enterprise-wide SAFe transformation to better align products to strategy and continuously deliver value. It was during this project where issues around collaboration and virtual PI planning came to a head.
“We’ve always worked in our silos, so identifying and then creating dependencies has been a big obstacle for us,” said Amanda Latusek, Manager, Enterprise Portfolio & PMO at AF Group. “We needed to find a way to work together as a cohesive team to deliver our PI objectives” ... continue reading
“There’s a demo sandbox available on the site, so anybody can go in and basically play around with the data to see what it looks like. And that’s fantastic because it was quite an easy pitch and to go to people and say, have a play with this.”
Ubisoft is the video game company behind some of the most well-known games in the industry, including Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Just Dance. The global organization is headquartered in France and has 59 development studios as well as 21,000 employees across the world.
One of the biggest challenges for the organization was how to do the right amount of planning, particularly within a remote working environment, with thousands of people based all over the world. It’s this challenge that prompted the team to find the right tool to help better manage their planning process ... continue reading
A highly-visual story map format transforms the flat Jira backlog into a meaningful picture of work. This makes backlog refinement, sprint or version planning, and user story mapping much easier.
Features and pricing“Many teams may know their mission well, but they might not necessarily know the entire end-to-end goal. When a business grows and scales, its focus on the broader goal can get lost. Having one shared story that aligns teams with what you’re trying to deliver is very powerful”.
Lyft is on a mission to deliver the world’s best transportation for people through shared rides, bikeshare systems, electric scooters, and public transit partnerships. Based in San Francisco, Lyft services are available in over 600 cities across the United States and Canada.
The business had grown significantly in recent years, using agile practices to help deliver great transportation experiences. But Lyft reached a turning point with the sudden shift to working from home after the pandemic hit. Without in-person collaboration and access to physical storyboards, the business needed to find a way to take agile into employee’s homes ... continue reading
“We had four weeks to find a way, we needed a solution we could quickly deploy, was easy to train people on, and was easy to set up. At the bare minimum, it had to replace the program boards that teams would stand in front of to do their planning.”
PNI Media is a Vancouver-based digital print media company helping turn people’s memories into photo products. Partnering with some of the biggest retailers on the planet, PNI Media offers on-demand, personalized print products and shipping solutions while serving 64 million customers each year.
When the pandemic hit and health restrictions began in early 2020, the business was one month out from PI planning. PI planning was traditionally done in-person with multiple teams onsite, so they needed to find a way to make the process work online ... continue reading
"Easy Agile is by far the best marketplace tool we have introduced into our team. User Story Maps replicates how my brain works into a single pane of glass"
"I think it's a great way to centralise information, and have all of your information available in one quick look. User Story Maps is perfect for that"
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Everything you need to know about PI Planning for agile and SAFe organizations. Get the PI Planning who, what, when, where, why, and how of events so you can confidently participate in PI Planning or even run your own PI Planning event.
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It's here: the newest Easy Agile App for Jira. Introducing Easy Agile Personas for Jira. Successful teams have customer focus. Personas need to be stored in Jira, where the team can access them alongside their work.
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