Featmap

Featmap is a user story mapping tool for product people to build, plan and communicate product backlogs.

Why use story mapping? A story map is the perfect tool to visualize product roadmaps for non-technical stakeholders. It gives an incredibly rich overview of the product, allowing you visualize the whole user journey and how it maps to features in the product. A story map is the perfect centerpiece of any product discussion with stakeholders.

How it works

1. Identify your personas Personas capture the goals, behaviors and needs of your end users. Personas bring the story map to life and they should be kept in mind whenever you add new features to you product. Personas can be real world people or made up.

2. Understand the user journey Invite customers and stakeholders and map out the user journey. Start by identifying goals. To break it down further, each goal is broken down into a set of consecutive activities. Map one or several personas to each goal.

3. Capture requirements that help achieve the user goals With the help of stakeholders formulate user stories and capture acceptance criteria of what you want to build. Add as much details to your feature as necessary for your team to get to work. Map each feature to a user activity on your story map.

4. Prioritize you backlog Each feature need to be mapped to a release. The golden rule is that each release needs to be a valuable product slice across the user journey. They most important features are pulled to the top. You want to start out simple and then iteratively expand on the functionality of your product by adding new product slices.

5. Share your product vision Story maps is the perfect tool to communicate you product vision with members of your team and with non-technical stakeholders. It beautifully pulls together the big picture, product priorities and progress while not forgetting the details. Your story maps can be shared with anyone, no Featmap account required.