Impact Mapping - Making an Impact over Shipping Software

Presentation at Agile Australia 2014.

Are you lost in a sea of business requirements? Are you struggling to articulate the business value of your technology project? Do your user stories lack context? Is there a lack of alignment between your delivery teams and business stakeholders? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, then this session is for you!

Impact Mapping is a facilitation technique that brings technologists and senior stakeholders together meaningfully to explore options. It exposes assumptions and helps shape a path from “We want everything” to “We want to make these impacts in this order”, avoiding the trap of solutions looking for problems.

This session provides an overview of how to create an Impact Map, shares some real-world examples of how impact mapping has helped support the delivery of software products and even provides an opportunity for you to start using the tool!