PO Conference Website Part 2

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
• Anatomy of a User Story Poster
• Story Mapping Poster

Tasks: Understanding The Solution

1. 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.)
2. 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
3. Sketch a composite of the website with your favourite features to form a paper prototype
4. Draw a Story Board of the conference website experience on several sheets of paper as a high level user journey that describes the website experience from an attendee’s and speaker’s perspective
5. 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
6. Get 2 sheets of flip chart paper and place them on the wall to form the basis for a Story Map
7. Take the user journey sheets of paper and place them across the top of the story map to form the outcome that you would like to provide
8. 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
9. Break down the paper prototype as User Stories with some information from the “Anatomy of a User Story” poster. Place the Product Backlog Items as post-it notes on the story map to form the “ribs” under the corresponding epics to provide a Product Backlog of features to be delivered
10. Estimate the User Stories using one of the following techniques, (the facilitator has the equipment needed):
    1. Affinity Estimation
    2. Planning Poker
    3. Ouija Board Sizing
11. Attribute business value to the user stories using one of the following techniques, (the facilitator has the equipment needed):
    1. Kano Analysis
    2. MVP
    3. Buy a Feature
12. 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
13. 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
14. Adjust the User Stories between the Sprint swim lanes to form a Release Plan over the 5 Sprints
15. Call over the facilitator to review and discuss

See Also

• PO Conference Website Part 1
• PO Conference Website Part 3