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title: "Use Case: Story Mapping Board"
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> | **Logo** | ![image](media://e5e8770e-6d2f-477a-b94b-6f4fa3f5c715) |
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> | **Use Case** | Story Mapping Board |
> | **Category** | Planning |
> | **Company/Team**<br>**Managed Projects** | Both |
> | **Summary** | Method for arranging user stories to create a more holistic view of how they fit into the overall user experience. |

> 📝 The paragraphs below outlines the specific use case. For more details about advanced features and complementary functionality we suggest to review [https://releasemanagement.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ASPT/pages/875692462](https://releasemanagement.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ASPT/pages/875692462) section of this documentation.

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# Detailed overview

## How to create?

(1) Go to “My Boards“ section. If you do not have any active boards this going to be your default page.

![image](media://3d2e7778-1a3b-4989-bd15-e02c9003384b)

Otherwise (if you already have one or few boards created) click on menu icon in top left corner to select “Manage Boards“

![image](media://7ef22469-dfdc-472a-a7b3-dad10cd1dedd)

(2) Click on “Create board“, choose “Classic Story Mapping Board“ and Next.

![image](media://97daaae8-a707-4747-a40b-d42490949534)

(3) On the initial configuration screen please specify

- **Name** of the board
- **Projects** to pool Jira issues from

> ℹ️ Both Company Managed Projects (CMP) and Team Managed Projects (TMP) are supported and can be used on the board simultaniously.

- **JQL** to filter out the issues
  - for stories only use “*issueType in (Story)”*

![image](media://0bc48c56-1cd7-48a6-b4d9-c309917447cb)

(4) Click “Create“

## How to use?

(1) You will receive a board with all applicable Jira issues in “Others“ left column

![image](media://4ba1f0c1-20e0-4e9e-ab67-98e2a18d1ff4)

(2) Navigate between the swimlanes and click “+” to add first Jira version (Release).

![image](media://96721e4d-4785-4041-bdb5-6e66e9ba9f78)

![image](media://ed4d1310-23c6-4c44-856d-74412c198282)

![image](media://a0fe5214-941d-4a74-b986-8135c1a382bf)

Add more upcoming Releases if you like

(3) Click “+” column to add Epics.

![image](media://e8fb79c3-990e-41dc-8c07-fe5cd456a801)

Add few more Epics comprising your backlog.

(4) Drag and drop issues between columns/swimlanes to assign Jira issues to a) appropriate Epic b) appropriate Version. All the changes to Assignee field are applied automatically and you do not need to commit it after.

![image](media://da5e7b09-78fb-4f1d-a8c7-d4e8a02c5c8c)

(5) To **Edit** column value, **Change** title, **Add** or **Remove **one move mouse to selected column and you will receive a tooltip with all the available options:

![image](media://836f5de4-8e1d-45d6-8d3e-f367c1b37cb5)

(6) Same applies to swimlanes: - navigate your mouse to one of them to **Add**, **Edit** or **Delete**

![image](media://0ba0b34e-ee18-4cf7-8285-24424f18cf5b)

## How to configure?

(1) Click settings icon in top right corner ..

![image](media://ec06f553-eac8-4e0a-bbf5-f67136a0f14d)

.. to open “Board configuration“ screen.

(2) on “General” Tab you can amend

- **Name** of the board
- **Projects** to pool Jira issues from
- **JQL** to filter out the issues

![image](media://ea984589-432d-42a6-b051-8b7c145d710d)

(3) on “Columns and Swimlanes“ tab you can change configuration of fields used respectively for Columns and Swimlanes. Swimlanes are optional. To remove them choose “-- none -- “ in popup.

![image](media://df63031c-e35e-4821-9d7a-68146657f94d)

# References

User Story Mapping is probably the most popular theme / technique in Agile Community. So, without a doubt you will find a lot of good materials to learn from. We will just recommend a few

- [https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/agile/user-stories](https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/agile/user-stories)
- [https://plan.io/blog/user-story-mapping/](https://plan.io/blog/user-story-mapping/)

# Other related Use-Cases

Check out other Agile Boards:

- [https://releasemanagement.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ASPT/pages/875757628](https://releasemanagement.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ASPT/pages/875757628)
- [https://releasemanagement.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ASPT/pages/867893249](https://releasemanagement.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ASPT/pages/867893249)

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