Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices

Story mapping

Story Mapping (http://jpattonassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/story_mapping.pdf) is a technique I find useful for slicing a product vision into a series of experiments that can be incrementally released to specific groups of users. As the following diagram depicts, it is a visualization technique to help tell a story about how different users (blue cards) do something to reach a specific goal. It is important to have a user focus because we will be using feature flags to enable features for specific user groups. Thus, the user needs to be a fundamental delimiter in the roadmap. User tasks (green and yellow cards) are organized from left to right in the order you would describe the user tasks to someone else. User tasks ...