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Story Splitting method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Story Splitting
Paper illustration of a journey map with four connected phases, several experience lanes and a point marked for closer investigation.
UX Research
Customer Journey Mapping
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Purposedifferent
When a story becomes too large for a clean flow, it breaks scope down along value and risk. It shapes the work into a form that ships earlier and is easier to verify.When a user journey falls apart across many touchpoints, customer journey mapping makes the experience visible as a coherent arc. Phases, emotions, and breaks become legible enough to prioritize critical moments deliberately.When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min2-4 h30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-64-103-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split RationaleJourney Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity BacklogAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items
Tagsno overlap
BacklogIterationDelivery
JourneyServiceService design
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
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A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting