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Create a user story map that lays out activities, steps, tasks, and release slices. Use when planning a workflow, backlog, or MVP around the user journey.

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User Story Map Template

Use this template to create a complete user story map (segment, persona, backbone, steps, and tasks).

Provenance

Adapted from prompts/user-story-mapping.md in the https://github.com/deanpeters/product-manager-prompts repo.

Template

## User Story Map Template

### Who

#### Segment:
- [Specify the target segment]

#### Persona:
- [Describe the persona and their key characteristics]

### Backbone

#### Narrative:
- [Insert the concise narrative of the persona's objective]

#### Activities:
1. [Describe Activity 1]
2. [Describe Activity 2]
3. [Continue as necessary for up to 5 activities]

#### Steps:
For [Activity 1]:
- Step 1: [Detail Step 1 for Activity 1]
- Step 2: [Detail Step 2 for Activity 1]
- Step 3: [Detail Step 3 for Activity 1]

#### Tasks:
For [Activity 1, Step 1]:
- Task 1: [Detail Task 1 for Step 1 of Activity 1]
- Task 2: [Detail Task 2 for Step 1 of Activity 1]
- Task 3: [Detail Task 3 for Step 1 of Activity 1]

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Capability

argument-hint: [product or workflow]
type: component
theme: pm-artifacts

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intent: Visualize the user journey by creating a hierarchical map that breaks down high-level activities into steps and tasks, organized left-to-right as a narrative flow. Use this to build shared understanding across product, design, and engineering, prioritize features based on user workflows, and identify gaps or opportunities in the user experience.
best_for: [ "Laying out activities, steps, and tasks across a user's workflow", "Slicing a backlog into releases that each deliver something usable", "Finding the gaps in a journey before they become production surprises" ]
scenarios: [ "We have a flat backlog and no sense of the user's actual workflow", "I need to slice this into releases that each deliver something usable" ]
estimated_time: 30-60 min

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