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d6y's review
4.0
I didn't know much about user story mapping but had a pretty good idea about other areas of xp development. With that background, I found this was a super useful book. Yes, it does seem long and chatty for that topic, and yes you are going to need some time and patience to get through it. But it covers a lot of ground: not just user story mapping, but where it fits into a larger set of subjects related to product idea evaluation, design thinking, planning, delivery, lean startup ideas and the ideas of running experiments to learn.
afuerstenau's review
5.0
It's great stuff, Jeff is talking about but the style of writing is much more important to me. Jeff is also extraordinary here because he "eats is own dog food", he speaks about story telling while using stories. :-) Thats great. In the second part of the book, the story telling went in the background a little bit but it comes back closer to the end of the book. I also like his humor, on how he is interacting with the reader. It could be a bit more from time to time.
It's highly recommended if you need to visualize a part of a product or a whole product.
It's highly recommended if you need to visualize a part of a product or a whole product.
smoreface's review
3.0
This book started off strong and got me really excited about the concepts and then as I read further, I realized that the book was handwaving over things that would really matter to me and my teams, or starting a metaphor to make something more understandable, but then abandoning it before any meaning was communicated. The book ended up feeling too long and served to communicate a practical framework in a way that got me to want to try it but so rigidly devoted to in-the-same-room conversations and varying, sometimes-conflicting concepts of how much story mapping/development/story breakdown is enough or not, that I lost the excitement. All of that combined with the tangential and repetitive nature of some of the chapters made me desire a more clearly written book that was shorter and with a less buddy buddy tone.
doughanke's review against another edition
4.0
I really like how this book breaks down the software development process. Breaking down stories, having people from all disciplines, figuring out what is really important.
That being said, this book is about 25% longer than it needs to be and some of my coworkers found it really repetitive in parts.
That being said, this book is about 25% longer than it needs to be and some of my coworkers found it really repetitive in parts.
dozylocal's review against another edition
4.0
Great book with a lot of great quotes/tid bits. Perhaps a little more focused on Product Discovery and Lean Start-up type concepts than the title might suggest, the first few chapters did provide valuable insights on how to do story-mapping itself. It's the kind of book that will deliver different nuggets every time you read it, depending on where you are in your Agile learning journey.
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