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🙅 The problem

When building software, development teams typically work with a flat list of user stories (also known as a “product backlog”). However, this common practice has lots of problems:

• A flat product backlog won’t help you identify all the user stories you need when planning your next release • It becomes very difficult to visualise your whole product and uncover gaps in your plans • A long list of user stories doesn’t help your team understand exactly what’s going on • Your design and development teams become misaligned because there isn’t a shared product vision

🛠 The solution

Considering the above issues with a flat product backlog, Avion offers a different way to structure your user stories within the context of your key user journeys. This process is called user story mapping and it has many advantages over a traditional flat list of user stories (learn more about this here).

🚀 With Avion you can:

• Visualise your entire product and its user journeys on a user story map • Effectively plan future releases and uncover gaps in your plans by identifying dependencies • Focus on delivering real value to your users by prioritising the right work • Easily share your release plans and product roadmap with your whole team

For a taster, here's a public share link of an example user story map we made for Airbnb: https://app.avion.io/share/PTxQeqWqo5Kqjg6iB