PO Conference Website Part 2
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This exercise provides some experience in creating a Story Map for a conference website.
Timings
Allow 3.5 hours for this exercise.
Equipment
- Flip chart paper
- A4 paper
- Post-it notes
- Markers
- Coloured dots
- Planning Poker Cards
- Poker Chips or tokens
- Story Mapping Poster
Tasks: Understanding The Solution
- Crazy 8s Sketching: set the timer for 8 minutes and as individuals sketch down at least 8 separate ideas for the website on sheets of A4. (Avoid variations of the same idea and instead try to provide 8 unique and new ideas.)
- Put all of the sketches up on the wall and review as a team, Dot Voting your favourite features to form a Feature Heat Map
- Sketch a composite of the website with your favourite features to form a paper prototype
- Create a Paper Prototype or Clickable Wireframe of the conference website experience on several sheets of paper as a high level user journey that shows the features and interactions of the website experience from an attendee’s and speaker’s perspective
- Invite one or two members from other teams to act as customers to provide some feedback on your paper prototype and how it might be used
- Get 2 sheets of flip chart paper and place them on the wall to form the basis for a Story Map
- Take the paper prototype and place it across the top of the story map to form the outcome that you would like to provide
- Copy the deliverables from the Impact Map onto new post-it notes and place them on the story map underneath the user journey to form the “spine” of the story map
- Use the paper prototype from earlier to create User Stories on Post-It notes for each of the features (the Anatomy of a User Story Poster may help,) and place them on the story map to form the “ribs” under the corresponding epics to provide a Product Backlog of features to be delivered
- Estimate the User Stories using one of the following techniques, (the facilitator has the equipment needed):
- Attribute business value to the user stories using one of the following techniques, (the facilitator has the equipment needed):
- Add post it notes down one side of the Story Map indicating Sprints 1-5 to form swim lanes for each of the 5 Sprints or iterations
- For each of the 5 Sprints, write a Sprint Goal on post-it notes paying special attention to using an iterative approach to the website
- Adjust the User Stories between the Sprint swim lanes to form a Release Plan over the 5 Sprints
- Call over the facilitator to review and discuss