Many agile projects are having trouble getting to grips with a steady growing number of user stories. This in turn makes prioritisation and planning difficult and frustrating, causing the team to make sub-optimal decisions in terms of what functionality should go into each release.

User story mapping is a simple way of collecting and organising user stories in a visual map. The map helps the team understand how to put together releases of real value to the business by taking the whole workflow into consideration and focusing on what the users want to accomplish.

This talk illustrates the problem, explains three strategies to deal with it, and introduces user story mapping as a tool for putting the strategies to life.