After chasing him across the east coast of Australia, Craig sits down with Jeff Patton at YOW! Conference in Sydney. Along the way they fail to remember the subtitle of Jeff’s “User Story Mapping” book and talk about:

• Art school dropout to software developer to early Extreme Programming
• “Extreme Programming Explained” by Kent Beck (and we agree the first edition was the better version!)
• One of the secrets to success is having a great relationship with customers
• Early Agile colleagues included Eric Evans (“Domain-Driven Design“), Joshua Kerievsky (“Refactoring to Patterns” and Industrial Logic), Rob Mee (Pivotal Labs)
• The product decisions on what to build matter most
• YOW! Talk “User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story“
• Story Mapping addressed the problem of losing sight of the big picture when building very small things
• Larry Constantine and Lucy Lockwood “Software For Use” – task modelling was the inspiration for Story Mapping
• Impact Mapping was inspired by Effect Mapping
• There is no way to build a story map and not stand in the shoes of someone using your product
• They were initially called “stories” not “user stories”, because of the way we use them – it’s not a change in the way we write documents, its a change in the way we work
• As a… I want… So that… is just a conversation starter, and they need titles!
• Dependencies in story mapping – the map helps you see in slices, using stories helps you build the thing you need now
• Passionate Product Owner course
• The hope of the User Story Mapping book is that people think differently about stories
• Your job in software development is not to build more crap faster, your job is to change the world
• Jez Humble “Lean Enterprise” – output and impact
• What we do now builds on an Agile foundation – but it is more than Agile – we are missing an umbrella term for product centricity
• Raccoon! – Jeff likes it, but it doesn’t work in mountain states as they knock over garbage cans!

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