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Why we picked it Story mapping is the technique for laying out the user's journey left to right and slicing off the smallest first version, which is exactly the must have actions for version one problem our answer names. Patton's own writeup teaches you to tell the whole story of what the user does, then draw a line under the handful of steps that make version one. It is the antidote to a flat wishlist of features.
User Story Mapping
From Jeff Patton & Associates by Jeff Patton 20 min read
- Lay out the user's journey as a left to right sequence of steps
- Slice horizontally to find the smallest usable first release
- The goal is shared understanding, not a longer feature list
