StoriesOnBoard

Really great tool with continual improvement

Commentaires : I really like the way it allows us to collaborate on stories, releases, and epics. Integrating with Jira is a very nice feature that is better and better with new releases. Also, adding an "undo" feature has been 100% excellent.

Avantages :

I like the collaboration between team members as well as between teams and clients. It solves the problem of telling the release/estimate story in a way that the client can have some influence!

Inconvénients :

User management is a bit tough. Even as an admin, adding yourself to an existing board makes it necessary to go find a different user management area, which is always strange.

Stories on Board is an integral part of our Agile Cycle

Commentaires : When writing enterprise software, there are a lot of moving parts that need to be tracked. Tracking them can get complicated and there are tools that can help that. There are a couple of tools I would never want to build software without and Stories on Board tops the list.We spent some time during our agile transformation not using story mapping, then did it manually. After some time we decided to evaluate different story mapping vendors and decided on one that worked the best for everything we needed (which was Stories on Board). All things considered the time and money we saved being able to actively collaborate using these tools and directly push the results into jira far outweighed what we were doing with our manual approach, and prevented errors as well.

Avantages :

I think anybody familiar with and who has effectively utilized story mapping in their development process may find this question rhetorical. Just in case though, my top two would be the collaborative story mapping functionality and second the road mapping and project reporting functionality that it also contains.

Inconvénients :

There's not much that I don't like about the software actually. Anything I've found that didn't feel right on the application I've sent directly to their support and they've addressed it right away, so its hard to find anything to write up here as a con.

Feature mapping in virtual world

Avantages :

Ease of creating releases Business flow maps

Inconvénients :

No good editor No good linking of releases

Versatile Dedicated Tool for Product Management

Commentaires : I started using StoriesOnBoard in an early stage of its life cycle, when it was a mediocre to good solution for user story mapping, but the only dedicated solution for this method. I am impressed by the development the software has taken since then, becoming a comprehensive product management platform and also being flexible enough for other use cases - e.g. I once conceived the structure for a non-fiction book with it and managed the writing process with it.

Avantages :

Easy to learn and use, comprehensive and dedicated to product management.

Inconvénients :

No whiteboard feature, which would be helpful in some stages - for this, a Miro integration would be great.

Still the best story mapping tool in the market

Avantages :

I like the keyboard shortcuts the most in StoriesOnBoard. It allows for easy navigation and modification of the cards in an efficient way when compared to other story mapping tools out in the market.

Inconvénients :

I would have normally said the visual design aesthetics could have been improved but the latest set of updates have made a drastic difference. I wish the integration between JIRA & StoriesOnBoard would be more robust for Nextgen projects.