James & Tim are both founders of Avion.io, a user story mapping tool that helps Product Teams to better collaborate and plan features, products, and services.

When Tim came back from his Product Owner course 5 years ago, learning about user story mapping, he quickly realized together with James that this methodology makes planning much easier and efficient. Unfortunately, they were missing a tool to digitalize and remotely collaborate on a user story map. They sat together after work and started designing and developing Avion.io which they've launched in 2019.

In this episode, they talk about the advantages of user story mapping as well as advanced techniques on release planning, MVP definitions, and some more cool story mapping life hacks.

Table of content

• 0:30 - How Tim & James got into user story mapping
• 5:25 - User story mapping vs. customer journey mapping
• 8:30 - Story mapping during the product development cycle
• 13:30 - Product discovery with story mapping
• 19:00 - Defining MVPs and preparing the backlog
• 25:40 - Story mapping as a product documentation tool
• 26:15 - Advanced release planning with story mapping
• 32:15 - Downside of story mapping
• 35:25 - Bootstrapping Avion with story mapping
• 43:40 - Key takeaways from Tim & James
• 46:30 - Debrief Alex & Christian

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