Agile User Story Mapping Tool

Agile User Story Mapping Tool

User Story Maps provide Scrum teams with a visual and structured approach to managing product backlogs. The visual story map enables the effective arrangement of product backbones (user activities), user tasks, epics and user stories into a manageable top-down structure based on the nature, priority and complexity of the map items.

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Value Stream Mapping Tutorial

Value Stream Mapping Tutorial

Looking for a VSM software? Our value stream mapping software makes creating professional value stream mapping easy and fast. The value stream mapping tool comes with a rich set of value stream mapping symbols. Combined with a drag-and-drop VSM editor and a powerful feature set, you can easily create professional value stream mapping.

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Fishbone Diagram — How to Draw?

Fishbone Diagram — How to Draw?

A fishbone diagram (also known as a cause and effect diagram or Ishikawa diagram) visually shows multiple causes of a problem. It helps identify stakeholder ideas about the cause of an issue and allows users to immediately categorize ideas into themes for analysis or further data collection. It can be used in conjunction with the “Five Whys” technique.

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Use Case — Learn By Examples

Use Case — Learn By Examples

A use case describes how a user uses a system to accomplish a specific goal. A use case diagram consists of a system, related use cases, and actors, and relates them to each other in order to visualize: what is being described? (the system), who is using the system? (actor) and what the actor wants to achieve? (use case), so that use cases help ensure that the right system is developed by capturing the requirements from the user’s perspective.

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BPMN —Quick Guide

BPMN —Quick Guide

The Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI) has developed a standard Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). The BPMN 1.0 specification was released to the public in May 2004. The specification represents more than two years of work by the BPMI Notation Working Group. In February 2006, the OMG released a BPMN specification document. Version 2.0 of BPMN was developed in 2010 and the actual version of the specification was released in December 2013.

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Project Management — What is a Project?

Project Management — What is a Project?

Modern and effective project management techniques require skills that allow the seamless integration of best practice tools with good leadership and team management within an organization for improving the likelihood of success of time-limited initiatives. These practices include establishing clear accountabilities, defining objectives and outcomes, establishing the scope, planning, monitoring, and reporting controls for project activities.

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