User Story Mapping by Jeff Patton

Author:Jeff Patton
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, pdf
ISBN: 9781491904909
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 2014-12-05T16:00:00+00:00

It’s Not Always Software

In 2011, Kent Beck—the creator of the story—opened one of the first Lean Startup conferences with his revision of the Agile Manifesto. If I’d done it, it might have been blasphemy. But he’s one of its creators, so he should know. He revised the value about working software to read:

Validated learning over working software (or comprehensive documentation)

If you remember from Chapter 3, validated learning is the super-valuable concept that comes from the Lean Startup process. The key word there is learning. What makes it validated learning is discussing what we want to learn as part of making something, and then going back and considering the consequences—reflecting on what we learned or didn’t learn. And one of the things we’re realizing is that we don’t always need to build software to learn. But we do usually need to make or do something.

I like using stories to drive the work we do to build simple prototypes, or to plan the work we’re doing to interview or observe users. I like talking about the who, what, and why for those things, too. I like agreeing on what we’ll make before we make it. And I look back at the consequences of having done it to consider what we’ve learned.

Try using stories to drive the making of anything, whether it’s software or not.

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