10 Jun 2019

The Art of Kanban + User Story Mapping

by Takeshi Yoshida | posted in: Mental Model Dōjō |

Kanban is deep… Combine that with Jeff Patton’s User Story Mapping (USM), it becomes a powerful visualization tool in Scrum.

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