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Article originally posted on blog.easyagile.com It might seem trivial at first, to come together as a team, mocking up what seem like fake dating profiles for your most important customers. However, this exercise sets the foundation for other agile practices down the track, and its perceived benefits are often undervalued.…

Assumptions In making an easy story mapping solution for Jira we've had to make some assumptions about how a Jira instance is set up. For example; * Kanban boards do not have an estimation statistics so the Story Map associated with a Kanban board does not show the estimation field * Agile boards containing multiple…

Article written by Nick Muldoon Product Manager with Easy Agile. Past Product Manager at Atlassian & Twitter. Here's what Nick covers in the article: * What is Cycle Time? * Why Epics? * Scaling Organisational Agility * The Twitter Way - Epics * Syncing Epic Status to Workflow * Control Chart * Epic Cycle Time Agile teams…

If you’re reading this, then you’re officially on the train; the Agile Release Train (ART) that is — and you’re attempting to navigate the world of the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®). One of the keys to the train running and delivering on time, is the execution of effective Program Increment Planning (PI Planning). How…

Hi, I’m Teagan, a Product Manager here at Easy Agile. Are you an Easy Agile User Story Maps customer who uses Personas internally to help drive product development? If that’s you and your team, I’d like to invite you to join me on a call to better understand how we can integrate Personas into Easy Agile User Story Maps.…

Congratulations! You have installed Easy Agile Roadmaps for Jira. So, where to from here? How do we create and manage a Roadmap? Here's what we'll cover in this post: * Adding an Epic to the Roadmap * Sizing Epics * Creating Themes * Adding Version Markers * Adding Date Markers One Roadmap per Agile Board Once installed,…

Hi, I’m Teagan, and I head up Product here at Easy Agile. I’d like to invite you to join me on a user testing session to understand how we can improve your Easy Agile User Story Maps experience, particularly for our customers with large Story Maps. If you: * have a spare 45 minutes * are an existing Easy Agile User Story…

The Easy Agile team is incredibly excited to announce the official launch of Easy Agile Programs for Jira. Over the past 11 months, the Easy Agile team have been investigating the way successful agile methodologies are adopted beyond the team level. We spent the first half of 2018 conducting customer interviews with large…

Board Query excludes Epic Issue Type The filter from your Agile Board is used to find the epics to display. Sometimes this filter has been configured to exclude the Epic issue type and therefore the product can't access them. For example, you may have a JQL filter query which inadvertently excludes the Epic Issue Type like…

 On March 24th, Nick Muldoon from Easy Agile presented Essentials of Agile User Story Mapping at the Sydney Atlassian User Group. The evening was hosted by Vince Butera of Dimension Data and there were 25 people in attendance. User Story Mapping It is an essential practice for every scrum and kanban team. Story mapping is…

It's been a year in the making. The results of the 12th Annual State of Agile Survey are in and over the last week we've poured over the findings, Here are our Top 10 most fascinating finds from this year's report. ---- * Finally! Customer/User Satisfaction was ranked as the top measure for the success of agile…

Being agile is hard, we know! And @Nick Muldoon has picked up some tricks along the way from his time working as the Product Manager of Jira Agile at Atlassian, to coaching Directors and VP's at Twitter - and he wants to share them with you in this upcoming webinar! Join @Nick Muldoon and the team at Tempo, to dive into…

Article written by Nick Muldoon Product Manager with Easy Agile. Past Product Manager at Atlassian & Twitter. Here's what Nick covers in this article: * Creating the Backbone * Ordering the Backbone (chronologically) * Creating User Stories * Sequencing In this post we'll explore the aspects of a successful Story Map. A…

According to the 11th Annual State of Agile Report, 35% of agile teams use story maps. A statistic that increased 6% since 2014. What is a Story Map? A User Story Map is a collaborative practice that guides an agile team in the creation of their product backlog. The story map captures the journey a customer takes with the…

Sally, the Technical Lead at Software Company ABC wants to know why her Product Manager insists on using a product roadmap; "We're an agile team right? It seems un-agile to set concrete dates in an out-dated document for stuff that we should (but probably won't) get done." Ahhhhhh, yes. A common question in agile software…

Article written by Nick Muldoon Product Manager with Easy Agile. Past Product Manager at Atlassian & Twitter. Here's what Nick covers in the article: * What is Cycle Time? * Why Epics? * Scaling Organisational Agility * The Twitter Way - Epics * Syncing Epic Status to Workflow * Control Chart * Epic Cycle Time Agile teams…

Article Written by Nick Muldoon Product Manager with Easy Agile. Past Product Manager at Atlassian & Twitter. Here's what Nick covers in this article: * Understanding the Customer as a Team * Outcomes Over Output * Release & Sprint Planning My introduction to User Story Mapping came in early 2011 when I was the Jira Agile…

I made it — I survived my first Atlassian Summit! And what an eventful week it was. From being denied entry to the “unofficial” Bash after party with none other than Mike Cannon-Brookes (apparently being a billionaire doesn’t excuse you from not having I.D), to meeting some fellow Australian Marketplace Vendors, and…

Article written by Nick Muldoon Product Manager with Easy Agile. Past Product Manager at Atlassian & Twitter. Here's what Nick covers in this article: * Understanding the Customer as a Team * Outcomes Over Output * Release & Sprint Planning My introduction to User Story Mapping came in early 2011 when I was the JIRA Agile…

Article written by Nick Muldoon Product Manager with Easy Agile. Past Product Manager at Atlassian & Twitter. Here's what Nick covers in this article: * Creating the Backbone * Ordering the Backbone (chronologically) * Creating User Stories * Sequencing In this post we'll explore the aspects of a successful Story Map. A…

User Story Mapping is an essential practice for every agile team. Story Mapping is an excellent technique for ensuring the team understands their customers, can clearly articulate the solution and stay focused on delivery. Easy Agile is a huge fan of story mapping and have been since 2011. We're such big fans that we…

On March 24th, Nick Muldoon from Easy Agile presented Essentials of Agile User Story Mapping at the Sydney Atlassian User Group. The evening was hosted by Vince Butera of Dimension Data and there were 25 people in attendance. User Story Mapping It is an essential practice for every scrum and kanban team. Story mapping is…

Board/Project Permissions There are two permissions that are required to create and update the Roadmap - Board Administrator and Project Administrator: * Board Administrator is required to store them and marker information for the Roadmap * Project Administrator is required to create and edit version information for the…

There is an issue in Jira Software for Server, which prevents Easy Agile Roadmaps from obtaining the list of projects referenced by your agile board filter. The bug appears when your board filter excludes a project. For example, the folowing filter query will not allow us to retrieve the list of projects: project != KANBAN…

Easy Agile Roadmaps stores theme and date information with the associated agile board and requires the Board Administrator permission to do so. This error occurs when a user loads a Roadmap for the first time and they are not a Board Administrator (different from Project Administrator): To fix this request to be added as…

Board Query excludes Epic Issue Type The filter from your Agile Board is used to find the Epics to display. Sometimes this filter has been configured to exclude the Epic Issue Type and therefore the product can't access them. For example, you may have a JQL filter query which inadvertently excludes the Epic Issue Type like…

Each story map has a one to one mapping with an agile board. If you are missing issues on the story map it is good to check they are also present on the backlog of the agile board. In this case, the missing issues may be excluded due to one of these reasons: * the agile board filter excludes particular issues, e.g. project…

By default the story map icon is only present in the project sidebar for Jira Software projects. It is possible to use a story map on a Jira Core or Service Desk project. Three Jira fields are required to use a story map and they are not available by default on Jira Business or Service Desk projects. Follow these steps to…