Podcasts about story maps

Send us a textGet ready for an inspiring and thought-provoking conversation! In this special episode of the Teaching History Her Way Podcast, I'm joined by an incredible panel of educators—Karalee Wong Nakatsuka, Shannon Salter, Angela Lee, and Annie Evans—to discuss teaching women's history, particularly on the local level. Students seeing history in their own communities is incredibly powerful!We recorded this episode, in part, to build excitement for our upcoming presentation at the National Council of the Social Studies Conference in Boston on November 23, 2024. Together, we explore how educators can uncover and share the stories of everyday women whose actions shaped history, using digital tools and student-driven research to foster meaningful connections to the women closest to them geographically, genetically, or both.Whether you're attending NCSS or simply want to enhance your teaching of women's history, this episode is packed with strategies and inspiration to bring these stories to life.Want to chat?Angela Lee: @mrshistorylee (X) mrshistorylee.bsky.social Annie Evans: @mapmaker (X) mapm8ker.bsky.socialKaralee Wong Nakatsuka: @historyfrog (X) @historyfrog.bsky.socialShannon Salter: @shannonsalter70 (X) or @civicswithsalter.bsky.socialInterested in some of the tools we mention in this episode?  Here is a list:Thing Link, Puppet Pals, ArcGIS, Wakelet, Story Maps, Ancestry.com, FamilySearch, National ArchivesLibrary of Congress, Gilder Lehrman Institute for American HistoryLet's be friends and continue the conversation!Instagram: @teachinghistoryherwayX: http://www.twitter.com/historyherwayOn the Web/Blog: http://www.teachinghistoryherway.comFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/teachinghistoryherwayBlueSky: @historyherway.bsky.socialSupport the production of the Teaching History Her Way Podcast by purchasing some really great history tees. Click here to shop now or go to www.teachinghistoryherway.com and click on "Merch."

Want to see a video version of this podcast? Please visit Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHBHjlb4y84 Support us on Patreon here - http://www.patreon.com/filmcourage. BUY THE BOOK - STORY MAPS: How To Write A GREAT Screenplay http://amzn.to/2hcbRwS BUY THE BOOK - STORY MAPS: TV Drama: The Structure of the One-Hour Television Pilot http://amzn.to/2heFCx5 DANIEL P. CALVISI is a Script Doctor, Writing Coach and the author of Story Maps: How to Write GREAT Screenplay and Story Maps: TV DRAMA: The Structure of the One-Hour Television Pilot. He is a former Story Analyst for major studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Miramax Films and New Line Cinema. He coaches writers, teaches webinars on writing for film and television and speaks at writing conferences. Many of his clients have worked with the top networks and studios in the industry, such as Netflix, HBO, Warner Brothers, Disney, Sony, ABC, Showtime, Apple TV+ and more. He holds a degree in Film and Television from New York University. He lives in Los Angeles. MORE VIDEOS WITH DANIEL CALVISI https://tinyurl.com/yc822utp CONNECT WITH DANIEL CALVISI http://actfourscreenplays.com https://www.facebook.com/StoryMaps https://twitter.com/storymapsdan https://www.instagram.com/storymapsdan MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS Story Maps: How To Write A GREAT Screenplay PART 1 - https://youtu.be/635p_nkiK-g Beginners Guide To Story Development: Why Scripts Are Rejected - https://youtu.be/EUd5hZL62MA The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers - https://youtu.be/Ab6z57N6evA First 3 Hours Of Writing A Story (Starting From Nothing) - https://youtu.be/b2RlPZmz9nc Why Most Scripts Are Rejected After The First 3 Pages - https://youtu.be/dEevGQ8Va_Y CONNECT WITH FILM COURAGE http://www.FilmCourage.com http://twitter.com/#!/FilmCourage https://www.facebook.com/filmcourage https://www.instagram.com/filmcourage http://filmcourage.tumblr.com http://pinterest.com/filmcourage SUBSCRIBE TO THE FILM COURAGE YOUTUBE CHANNEL http://bit.ly/18DPN37 SUPPORT FILM COURAGE BY BECOMING A MEMBER https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs8o1mdWAfefJkdBg632_tg/join SUPPORT FILM COURAGE BY BECOMING A PATRON https://www.patreon.com/filmcourage LISTEN TO THE FILM COURAGE PODCAST https://soundcloud.com/filmcourage-com (Affiliates) SAVE $15 ON YOUTUBE TV - LIMITED TIME OFFER https://tv.youtube.com/referral/r0847ysqgrrqgp ►WE USE THIS CAMERA (B&H) – https://buff.ly/3rWqrra ►WE USE THIS SOUND RECORDER (AMAZON) – http://amzn.to/2tbFlM9 Stuff we use: LENS - Most people ask us what camera we use, no one ever asks about the lens which filmmakers always tell us is more important. This lens was a big investment for us and one we wish we could have made sooner. Started using this lens at the end of 2013 - http://amzn.to/2tbtmOq AUDIO Rode VideoMic Pro - The Rode mic helps us capture our backup audio. It also helps us sync up our audio in post https://amzn.to/425k5rG Audio Recorder - If we had to do it all over again, this is probably the first item we would have bought - https://amzn.to/3WEuz0k LIGHTS - Although we like to use as much natural light as we can, we often enhance the lighting with this small portable light. We have two of them and they have saved us a number of times - http://amzn.to/2u5UnHv *These are affiliate links, by using them you can help support this channel.

In this episode, Stephen Goldsmith interviews Tucson's Chief Equity Officer Laurice Walker and Equity Data Manager Laura Sharp about using data and mapping to reshape city policies and services to prioritize equity, and how to lay the groundwork for lasting transformation. They discuss the city's equity framework the Tucson Equity Data Strategy and why it's important to leverage multiple types of data for impactful decisions.Music credit: Summer-Man by KetsaAbout Data-Smart City SolutionsData-Smart City Solutions, housed at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University, is working to catalyze the adoption of data projects on the local government level by serving as a central resource for cities interested in this emerging field. We highlight best practices, top innovators, and promising case studies while also connecting leading industry, academic, and government officials. Our research focus is the intersection of government and data, ranging from open data and predictive analytics to civic engagement technology. We seek to promote the combination of integrated, cross-agency data with community data to better discover and preemptively address civic problems. To learn more visit us online and follow us on Twitter. 

Today, we get to learn from Gloria Desanker, geospatial storyteller, founder, and Principal Consultant at Map Nerd Consulting.More About GloriaMy name is Gloria Desanker, and I founded Map Nerd Consulting so that I could work as a Geospatial Storyteller to help others unlock the power of location-based insights. My services are designed to uplift community stories, especially communities of color. I offer tailored GIS solutions, visually appealing cartographic design, social media and marketing support, and storytelling guidance so that you can ensure your stories and experiences are authentically portrayed.As a Black woman in the GIS, forestry, environmental science, and environmental education fields/sectors, I experience firsthand the lack of acknowledgment and representation these fields have of Black and brown successes, accomplishments, and feats. That is why I strive to change the white-dominant narrative of how data should be used, why data should be used, and how to use data and GIS to share an accurate representation of people of color in the U.S.I take my clients through the full arc of mapping their story: story development, data collection and management, cartography and spatial analysis, graphic design and creation, and communications through Story Maps, infographic and report creation, or social media marketing. Data is only meaningful if a story is attached to it and we at Map Nerd Consulting believe there is a story in every map.This past year, I joined the 2023 Cohort of the NAAEE CEE-Change Fellows where I am partnering with NorthStar of GIS whose mission is to advance intersectional racial justice, equity, and belonging in GIS, geography, and STEM. Together, we are developing GIS curriculum and training materials specifically for and by Black people and the Black African diaspora to change the narrative on how Black people and communities are portrayed in the context of climate change. Map Nerd ConsultingView Map Nerd Consulting's LinktreeSchedule a call with Gloria at https://calendly.com/mapnerdMercator ProjectionGloria's Community Action Project with NAAEE CEE-Change Fellowship  ________________________Producer: Tania MarienMusic: So Far So Close by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike License; SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR by Jason Shaw is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States License.View The Freelance Project Portfolio to learn more about Independent environmental education professionals and how they strengthen environmental literacy.Contact Us * Talaterra is an affiliate of Bookshop.org. Commissions earned support The Freelance Project.

Polo Ramírez conversó en Ruta Silvestre con Ingrid Espinoza, directora de Conservación de Rewilding Chile y encargada de Story Maps quien habló sobre este proyecto. Además, habló con Aurelio Montes, padre y Aurelio Montes, hijo, de la viña Montes, que presentaron su nuevo carmenére Wings.

Class Project for Introduction to Public History Students put together a history of Monmouth from 3 perspectives: History of Immigration, History of Military and History of Architecture

This week on Choosing Your Reflection we have storyteller, coach, and author of the book Story Maps, Michael Kass. He recounts how weddings are one of few ancient rituals left in modern society and shares how couples can practice the "simple" acts of listening and breathing to make the process less stressful. Michael also discusses the importance of aligning your personal stories to find better balance, not only on your wedding day, but every day! Special Guest: Michael Kass.

Kathy Lamb Kozenski, the Executive Director of the Geography Educators Network of Indiana, explains that geography is more than just making a map; it is telling a story. We can use story maps to visually tell a story. Story maps use a geographic reference tied to some sort of data. Kathy explains Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the layers in today's mapping software. The video also walks people through how to make an ESRI Story Map.   NOTE: The audio podcast available on most Podcast players is the shortened version of this interview.

"Story Mapping ist meine liebste agile Praktik" sagt Tim. Im Gespräch mit Oliver erläutert er daher seine Leidenschaft für die Methode des Story Mapping und wie bzw. wo er Story Maps gerne einsetzt. Natürlich erfahrt ihr auch, aus welchen grundlegenden Elementen Story Maps bestehen und wie ihr sie mit euren Teams und Stakeholdern entwickeln könnt. Tim erklärt, warum für ihn die Diskussion über Wirkungsschnitte ("Target Outcomes") so zentral ist. Zudem hilft es massiv in der Diskussion mit deinen Stakeholdern. Zum anderen sorgt es für Klarheit - auch in der Diskussion mit dem ganzen Scrum Team bzw. Produkt- oder Projektteam. Target Outcomes bilden für Tim eine perfekte Verbindung zwischen einer agilen Roadmap und der Story Map. Je nach Abstraktionsebene kann ein solches Target Outcome sogar als Product Goal dienen. Wobei Product Goals vermutlich in der Regel etwas größer als ein Target Outcome sein dürften. Wenn ihr in dieser Weise ein (oder zwei) einzelne Slices der Story Map in euer Product Backlog überführt, habt ihr sofort mehr Fokus und damit Klarheit im Backlog. Auch Sprintziele (Sprint Goals) werden sich so sicherlich einfacher finden lassen. Zum Product Goal und Sprint Goal haben wir bereits Episoden in diesem Podcast veröffentlicht. Tim erwähnt diese Story Mapping Quellen: - Jeff Patton: User Story Mapping (Buch) - Jeff Patton: Story Mapping (Quick Reference) - Jeff Patton: Opportunity Canvas (Template) - Handouts, Übungen & Trainingsmaterial und der direkte Zugriff in die Dropbox von Jeff Patton (folgt dafür dem Link https://www.jpattonassociates.com/handouts/)

In this episode John spoke to GIS advocate and enthusiast Joseph Kerski. They discussed what GIS is, explored terms such as 'geospatial thinking' and 'the geographic perspective', as well as detailing a host of free GIS tools teachers can use in their lessons today. Joseph Kerski is a geographer with a focus on the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in education. Joseph gave a TED Talk on ‘The Whys of Where'. He holds 3 degrees in geography and has served as geographer in 4 sectors of society, including government (21 years at NOAA, US Census Bureau, USGS), academia (Penn State, Sinte Gleska University, University of Denver, others), private industry (as Education Manager for Esri for 14 years), and non-profit organisations (as President of the National Council for Geographic Education, and others). Find out more about Joseph's work on his website. Many thanks to Pearson for sponsoring season 4 of GeogPod. Resources mentioned in the podcast: Joseph's 'Our Earth' video channel. Joseph's Twitter Joseph's 'Thinking Spatially' podcast. Esri UK schools site. ArcGIS Online, 2D maps and 3D scene viewer and analytical tools. Essays on spatial data, data quality, ethics, societal issues. Wayback imagery app. Story Maps. Water Balance app. Elevation profile app. Joseph's walkability map, survey, dashboard, and story map.

Welcome back author and Story Maps guru Daniel Calvisi. I wanted to bring him back to discuss how to use his story mapping technique on a TV/streaming script. This is based on his book STORY MAPS: TV Drama: The Structure of the One-Hour Pilot.

Today on the show we bring back author and Story Maps guru Daniel Calvisi. His last episode was one of the most popular in the history of the podcast. The concept of story mapping has been a huge help to so many screenwriters. This is why I wanted to bring him back to discuss how to use his story mapping technique on the television/streaming script. This is based on his best selling book STORY MAPS: TV Drama: The Structure of the One-Hour Television Pilot.Daniel Calvisi brings his Story Maps screenwriting method to television as he breaks down the structure of the TV drama pilot, citing case studies from the most popular, ground-breaking series of recent years, including THE WALKING DEAD, GAME OF THRONES, HOUSE OF CARDS, TRUE DETECTIVE, BREAKING BAD, MR. ROBOT, SCANDAL, and MAD MEN.Story Maps: TV Drama offers the first beat sheet for television screenwriters ("Save the Cat" for TV). This is the structural template that aspiring and professional TV writers have been looking for. A clear, practical, step-by-step method for writing a pilot that adheres to Hollywood standards.How to write a TV pilot has never been easier. Writing a pilot begins here.This book first introduces you to the key formats, genres, and terminology of modern TV shows then details the major signpost beats of a teleplay and the crucial characteristics that must be present in each act, using specific examples from our new "Golden Age of Television."Enjoy my conversation with Daniel Calvisi.

Today on the show we bring back author and Story Maps guru Daniel Calvisi. His last episode was one of the most popular in the history of the podcast. The concept of story mapping has been a huge help to so many screenwriters. This is why I wanted to bring him back to discuss how to use his story mapping technique on the television/streaming script. This is based on his best selling book STORY MAPS: TV Drama: The Structure of the One-Hour Television Pilot.Daniel Calvisi brings his Story Maps screenwriting method to television as he breaks down the structure of the TV drama pilot, citing case studies from the most popular, ground-breaking series of recent years, including THE WALKING DEAD, GAME OF THRONES, HOUSE OF CARDS, TRUE DETECTIVE, BREAKING BAD, MR. ROBOT, SCANDAL, and MAD MEN.Story Maps: TV Drama offers the first beat sheet for television screenwriters ("Save the Cat" for TV). This is the structural template that aspiring and professional TV writers have been looking for. A clear, practical, step-by-step method for writing a pilot that adheres to Hollywood standards.How to write a TV pilot has never been easier. Writing a pilot begins here.This book first introduces you to the key formats, genres, and terminology of modern TV shows then details the major signpost beats of a teleplay and the crucial characteristics that must be present in each act, using specific examples from our new "Golden Age of Television."Enjoy my conversation with Daniel Calvisi.

Story Mapping is a technique for visually documenting a story about how a user will use a product to perform the tasks that help achieve his or her goals. Story Maps are invaluable for reaching a common understanding of what are the key features that will make a product valuable. Links: http://www.jpattonassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/story_mapping.pdf https://www.amazon.com/User-Story-Mapping-Discover-Product-ebook/dp/B00NF07FHS

Jonas Wauters from KPMG Belgium has a challenge pitching a Dynamics 365 project using Scrum to a prospective client. In particular, he'd like to know how to handle it when clients ask those three little questions: What are you going to deliver? When are you going to deliver it? How much is it going to cost? Neil's advice is to avoiding assuming that if a client is familiar with agile that everyone in the client's team is familiar with Scrum. Make sure you describe your Scrum framework in your proposal and presentation so that everyone has a common understanding. Neil also describes how he uses user story maps to help clients visualise the scope, timeline and costs associated with a Dynamics 365 project. You can find out more about story maps for Dynamics 365 here: https://customery.com/storymaps. 

Frank and Barb talk to Marvin Davis about conveying public information through Story Maps.

In today's episode, I share the one question you really need to ask yourself in order to finish your book. I also mention one of my favorite books for outlining which is Story Maps by Dan Calvisi. To read more about Dan's approach, check out https://actfourscreenplays.com/story-maps/ As always, thanks so much for listening. If you'd like any help with your book, feel free to contact me jim@storycrafting.net or check out storycrafting.net/finish

Want to see the video version of this podcast on Youtube? Click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=635p_nkiK-g Want more writing videos? Check out our collection on Youtube here: https://bit.ly/2JZJXTi BUY THE BOOK - STORY MAPS: How To Write A GREAT Screenplay http://amzn.to/2hcbRwS BUY THE BOOK - STORY MAPS: TV Drama: The Structure of the One-Hour Television Pilot (Volume 4) http://amzn.to/2heFCx5 CONNECT WITH DANIEL CALVISI http://actfourscreenplays.com https://www.facebook.com/StoryMaps https://twitter.com/storymapsdan BECOME A FILM COURAGE MEMBER https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs8o1mdWAfefJkdBg632_tg/join CONNECT WITH FILM COURAGE http://www.FilmCourage.com http://twitter.com/#!/FilmCourage https://www.facebook.com/filmcourage http://filmcourage.tumblr.com http://pinterest.com/filmcourage BUSINESS INQUIRIES http://bit.ly/22M0Va2 SUBSCRIBE TO THE FILM COURAGE YOUTUBE CHANNEL http://bit.ly/18DPN37 LISTEN TO THE FILM COURAGE PODCAST https://soundcloud.com/filmcourage-com PROMOTE YOUR MOVIE, WEBSERIES, OR PRODUCT ON FILM COURAGE http://bit.ly/1nnJkgm SUPPORT FILM COURAGE http://www.patreon.com/filmcourage BECOME A FILM COURAGE MEMBER https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs8o1mdWAfefJkdBg632_tg/join CONNECT WITH FILM COURAGE http://www.FilmCourage.com http://twitter.com/#!/FilmCourage https://www.facebook.com/filmcourage http://filmcourage.tumblr.com http://pinterest.com/filmcourage BUSINESS INQUIRIES http://bit.ly/22M0Va2 SUBSCRIBE TO THE FILM COURAGE YOUTUBE CHANNEL http://bit.ly/18DPN37 LISTEN TO THE FILM COURAGE PODCAST https://soundcloud.com/filmcourage-com PROMOTE YOUR MOVIE, WEBSERIES, OR PRODUCT ON FILM COURAGE http://bit.ly/1nnJkgm SUPPORT FILM COURAGE http://www.patreon.com/filmcourage Please subscribe to our Youtube channel. You can show additional support via our Youtube sponsor tab by going here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs8o1mdWAfefJkdBg632_tg/join or through Patreon here - http://www.patreon.com/filmcourage. Thank you for listening! We hope you've enjoyed this content.

SPaMCAST 527, is our last podcast of 2018.  We say goodbye to 2018 by talking about user story maps.  User story maps are both versatile and an underused tool. Perhaps something that we can address in 2019? We also have a visit from Susan Parente.  Susan brings her Not a Scrumdamentalist column to the cast to discuss agile risk management.  Risk management is a requirement for any form of work. Why do some in the agile community feel it is not needed?   Re-Read Saturday News We are re-reading Bad Blood, Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou (published by Alfred A. Knopf, 2018 – Buy a copy and read along).  This week we move through three chapters. These three chapters continue to show the same pattern of abuse of the truth and employees that we have seen in other chapters. Arguably, conflating Theranos’s mission with a religion (chapter 14) might take the story to a new level of crazy but it is only that, a new level. Week 10 - ChiatDay, Going Live and Unicorn - https://bit.ly/2SrRpGv Previous Entries: Week 1 – Approach and Introduction – https://bit.ly/2J1pY2t    Week 2 -- A Purposeful Life and Gluebot - https://bit.ly/2RZANGh Week 3 -- Apple Envy, Goodbye East Paly and Childhood Neighbors - https://bit.ly/2zbOTeO Week 4 -- A Reflection -https://bit.ly/2RA6AfT Week 5 -- Sunny - https://bit.ly/2AZ5tRq Week 6 - The miniLab -  https://bit.ly/2rfmwJh Week 7 - Wellness Play - https://bit.ly/2rqUYk6 Week 8 - Who is LTC Shoemaker - https://bit.ly/2GkbWv0 Week 9 - Lightning a Fuisz and Ian Gibbons - https://bit.ly/2QR7poR Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 528 rings in the new year with an interview with Allan Kelley.  Allan makes his third appearance on the cast to talk about his book Continuous Digital and the state of agile.  A great way to start the year!  

The Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Seminole Indian Museum (https://www.ahtahthiki.com/), on the Big Cypress Reservation in the Florida Everglades, serves as the public face of the Seminole Tribe of Florida (https://www.museumarchipelago.com/16). But the museum collaborates with the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Tribal Historic Preservation Office (http://www.stofthpo.com/) (THPO) next door to preserve the tribe's culture, working for and with the community through various shared projects. One of the projects is called Are We There Yet: Engaging the Tribal Youth with Story Maps (https://www.ahtahthiki.com/mosaic/), which is now on display in the museum. Quenton Cypress, Community Engagement Coordinator at THPO, and Lacee Cofer, Geo Spatial Analyst at THPO, started the project with Juan Cancel, Chief Data Analyst at THPO. The team taught 11th grade students at the Ahfachkee School (the school on the Big Cypress Reservation) GIS mapping software and helped the students create their own maps about a Seminole or Native American topic (https://afstof.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=cd4597ad79cb4ca8ab920cbe7b548442). In this episode, the THPO team talks about the process of teaching the students how to use geospatial software, the Story Maps that the students created, and how the students reacted to seeing their work in the museum gallery. Image: Lacee Cofer, Juan Cancel & Quenton Cypress presenting thier project at the Esri User Conference in San Diego in 2018. Club Archipelago

Today we talk about creating narrative with examples from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.  Peter Herrick and Bradley Dean discuss their efforts to combine the geospatial content, infographics, and regulatory requirements into a cohesive narrative.   Show Topics: Narrative - Driving People to Action Plain Language Visioning Sessions with the whole team: Devon McGhee Francie Israeli Randy Talley JD Humphreys Pernille Buch-Pedersen Krista Conner Ashley Horne Josh Williams Relating to Users:  Learning from Lycoming http://fema.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=8093679c21fe4930831bc32dbf38e8f0   FEMA Coastal Floodplain Mapping https://fema.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=89d2e393f2c64d7cae07264f4d00c19d   P.herrickjr@fema.dhs.gov Bradley.dean@mbakerintl.com kurt@speakingofgis.com

I loved being a student. Sometimes as a teacher, I'd like to trade places with my students. I enjoy learning. Well in this episode, I get to do just that! Michael Brilla is a fabulous middle school history teacher from Pottstown, Pa. Michael is my teacher and I'm his student. He's going to school me about digital storytelling. I'm reading a fascinating book called "Talk Like TED" by Carmine Gallo. Carmine evaluates the presentation styles of the most popular TED presenters. One common thread is powerful storytelling. Teachers have a responsibility to help kids evolve as storytellers. It's an essential skill. Michael Brilla and I became acquainted on Twitter. He promoted the idea of digital storytelling. I was instantly intrigued. Michael's platform of choice is Knight Lab. Knight Lab is a free platform gifted to the world from a team of brilliant, talented, and creative faculty and students at Northwestern University. Job 1 when I return to school in one month is to master this powerful platform. I was thrilled to listen to Michael because he's already utilized it extensively and successfully. In this episode, Michael highlights his student's creation of Timelines and Story Maps. Please visit these links and marvel at what Michael's kids created. Digital storytelling has great potential!

How to Break Down & Story Map Your Screenplay with Daniel CalvisiToday guest is author Daniel Calvisi. Dan wrote the book Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay. He breaks down stories and shows you how to map out your own by analyzing how the masters construct their screenplays. Here's a bit more on today's guest.Daniel Calvisi is a story analyst, speaker, screenwriter and the author of Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay, Story Maps: TV Drama: The Structure of the One-Hour Television Pilot, and Story Maps: 12 Great Screenplays and Story Maps: The Films of Christopher Nolan. He is a former Story Analyst for major studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Miramax He is a former Story Analyst for major studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Miramax Films, and New Line Cinema. He coaches writers, teaches webinars on writing for film and television with The Writers Store and speaks at writing conferences and book signings. He holds a degree in Film and Television from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Enjoy my conversation with Daniel Calvisi.

Episode 7 - Jeff Patton - User Story Maps and the discovery of great products Another one of the greats. I follow his work since years, I integrate lots of what he does in my work. Everyone knowing me or having had a training with me, knows what he does with Story Maps. But having come up with Story Maps and having written the first book around is „this little thing“ to Jeff Patton. Jeff is really deep into product work and he has lots of thoughts to offer on Agile and especially on everything around stories and story thinking. And one of the reasons he knows all about that is because he was already there when it happened. He was in the same building with Kent Beck when Extreme Programming happened and Stories came up. He was coached by Rob Mee of Pivotal Tracker fame. So, this is not just a deep dive on stories and the Story Mapping technique that emerged form it but also some oral history on how and where it all started to happen. Nowadays, Jeff more and more dives into the discovery phase and at the end of the podcast we will hear lots about this and where this might clash with Agile or how it is taught in most cases. But what is so relaxing is that we really don’t talk much process. And I think the reason is that product is much less process than it is orthogonal to process and it is about thinking of quality, what quality means to whom, for whom we’re building things and having empathy for them. Speaking of empathy: Enjoy a nice conversation with a humble, humorous and relaxed Jeff Patton! Chapters 0:02:04 (User) Stories - the base of all 0:13:19 Documents are like vacation stories 0:31:43 Story Maps - what it is, how i emerged 0:43:10 How to teach Story Maps 0:55:34 Struggling with the backlog as a prioritised list 0:57:54 Products we like: A BMW 335 convertible, Netflix and Spotify, an EV 320 Microphone and a Sonos speaker 1:04:34 Why have (Agile) things gotta be so complicated? 1:11:44 Is software harder than software and: First off, no process is going to help you Chapter Notes 2:04 (User) Stories - the base of it all Going down memory lane, meeting lots of now famous people, e.g. Kent Beck "People have gotten User Stories wrong from the beginning" "When I first heard the term "Stories" I thought it was stupid - what we’re doing is important stuff. Stories  … that sounds like fantasy or fiction … it doesn’t sound serious at all" "What Kent meant with stories was really stories. We should be talking with each other and telling stories about the products" "The goal is building shared understanding" "What we are talking about isn’t what to build. What we’re talking about with each other is: who’s using this product and why and what benefit they get. and understanding that we can then talk about together about what to build." "Where things go horribly wrong is when people use stories and try to do what they used to do." "So, people try to use stories as an alternative to other specification algorithms, when that’s not what they were meant to be" How stories are not precise and complete 8:22 Comparing stories and UML The promise with UML was that you had to learn UML and then you had to talk to someone who knew UML. Stories fix all this. "Stories fix all kind of crappy documentation. Because know we have humans to talk to to explain things" "I keep telling people that if you’re using stories, you have to change your process"  "The problem stories don’t solve is the way you specify. … If you’re using stories, you still have to figure out ways to specify." "I think people write documents because they don’t like to talk to each other." 11:15 Documents are like vacation photos  „The minute you write stories and hand them over without having a conversation, that’s the moment when things start to go wrong.“ 17:14 How Kent Beck never called "stories" "user stories" Rumors and misconceptions on stories and sizes and templates  How somehow people and many Scrum Master are spreading the rumor of „we have to use (User) Stories all the way   "The way Agile works is we build little things, and we work in short cycles. … But the problem is that when we build a product that is supposed to go to the market and create value it is not something we build in days." "Those things we can build in a few days hardly have value and it becomes hard to tell a story about those things" "I learned these things around 2000 and we called them stories and not user stories, and we didn’t use the term epic and you know, the user story template - we certainly didn’t use that." 23:14 How the founder of Pivotal Tracker, Rob Mee, was Jeff’s XP coach, refused using the template in his tool and now it does anyway: "I’m never gonna put that stupid template inside of Tracker … well, it’s in there now. And I’m sure not because Rob thinks it’s a good idea." "But the template falls apart super easy. … The conversations we need to have are far more sophisticated than that." "As a user I want just dumbs down all the rich conversations we need to have …" The three (or five?) C’s of stories Ron Jeffries 3 C’s: Card Conversation, Confirmation "The conversation is not about the acceptance criteria but about Who, What and Why! … It’s meant to be a bit of a back and forth." "What I see people doing these days is: Card -> Conformation" Documents are contracts and with stories "we finally recognise that documents are never gonna be good enough, they’re never gonna be precise enough and what matters is understanding and the only way we get it is by talking to each other." "Shared documents aren’t shared understanding" and that will make a lot of people uncomfortable. 31:43 Story Maps - what it is, how it emerged A solution for breaking big things down that take weeks and weeks to build into little things we can build in days. The metaphor of rocks that when you break them, remain rocks … just: little rocks. Just like big stories (no matter if you call them epics or not) that when you break them down just remain … stories. "Story mapping is the thing that I used to do to get from a big idea to break it down into small parts." How story maps emerged from the technique called "User Task Model" over "Span Plan" (influenced by the Poppendiecks) to Story Maps (which name came up in a discussion with Alistair Cockbourn). How Jeff wanted to write a huge book on everything outside of Agile, but then Story Maps took off and then the small book on story Maps got bigger and bigger. A next book is planned. Jeff is not afraid, and still has lots to say. It’ll be easy. Ha! Jeff’s book has three forewords. It reflects the mantra of product work, being credited to Marty Cagan, that it’s all about the intersection between valuable, usable and feasible. The three forewords represent that by having representatives from UX - Alan Cooper, development - Martin Fowler and finally product itself - Marty Cagan. That trinity is called a Core Team and is still widely used. 43:10 How to teach Story Maps Two good ways: Simply mapping something live and lead discussions, conversations. Mapping a morning from waking up to getting to work, then let a group mix the individual morning stories and change it, because some strange event happened, like: Getting up too late. These are ways that lets people focus on writing down activities rather than things or functionalities. Also, it makes obvious that different people behave differently. Further it teaches how to slice and cut things away, e.g. because there is less time than usual. some things can not be sliced out (morning hygiene) but need to be thinned out. Maps are useful for still seeing the whole while we flesh out the small things. "We need details when we go into the next sprint, but we still need to be able to see the whole. Because it’s the whole that has value. That’s the real value of a map." An application in a workshop: Planning the first release of a wine shop. 55:34 Struggling with the backlog as a prioritised list "There’s a lot of things I disagree with on how Agile gets taught and used and abused. One of the things I struggle with is the way it is taught that a backlog needs to be a prioritised list." "If you think of a new product … it would be completely impossible to understand what it is … based on a prioritised list of features." "It is so valuable to see the whole. And you don’t get that in a flat backlog." "When you talk about parts of a thing, you normally need all of them." 57:54 Products we like: A BMW 335 convertible, Netflix and Spotify, an EV 320 Microphone and a Sonos speaker Trying to find out why we like them. For starters, the BMW is super impractible for where Jeff lives, as they have lots of snow. He still loves it. Netflix now works for Jeff as a traveler, because downloads are possible. "Why we encourage people to talk about why they like a product is because why you like a product has a lot to do with who you are." "The toughest choices are not what features your product has, the toughest choice is who your product is for and the really hard choice is who your product is not for." "If people really love a product, I always ask: "What did you use before?"." "When you’re using a good product, you can sorta smell the thought and care that went into creating the product." "That’s what I really worry about when we talk all about Agile and breaking things into little pieces … that we lose sight of who its for and that we lose sight of all the little things that matter so much … and start working about acceptance criteria." 1:04:34 Why have (Agile) things gotta be so complicated? While teaching discovery (e.g. in 5 day immersion workshops), Jeff realises that people no longer know, see and have empathy with their clients, users, etc. "We have to come with a lot of process junk and waste to help us manage what we’re doing when a little bit of empathy and understanding of who you’re building for goes a long way." "In a lot of contexts it’s not easy to get to the customers. And to what you say, even if we could get to them, we don’t want to. It’s not comfortable talking to those people - and it’s unnerving sometimes." 1:11:44 Is software harder than software and: First off, no process is going to help you When Apple had a problem with a new carrier, it was normal for a developer to linger around at the carrier. "At Apple it was not not unusual, no one was asking: why aren’t you at your desk? Why aren’t you writing code? It was absolutely rational to do that." At a different spot: Q: "If you think of Apple, on a range from 1 to 10 where would you put the quality they ship at Apple?" A: "I’d put it at 9." Q: "Where would you put what you ship here?" A: "About a six." Q: "If you were at Apple and you would ship a six, what do you think would happen to you? You ship 6 here all the time." A: "We celebrate that we ship all the time." Conclusion: "Something has to change around here that is not process" "Everything is becoming more blurred all the time." "The hardware isn’t even the hardware. It’s the software that’s changing it." "More and more you buy a piece of hardware and it’s not like it’s in the box and the partnership with the manufacturer is done. There’s an ownership lifecycle that supports it." "I was at a conference in Australia and the speaker right before was a designer at Lego. and he came up with that idea that they came up with that perfect Lego model that was really testing well but it was too expensive to build. And he said „you know how it is when the perfect solution is too expensive to build and we have to figure out something different.“ And the audience was quiet and the audience was „no, I don’t know what you’re talking about." "I see so many people in the software world arguing for what’s best and not for what’s feasible and not understanding that it’s not about best …" We have to learn again to prototype. "And at times a prototype is more expensive than the real thing." "What’s interesting is that Agile Development has gotten totally effed up when it comes to this prototyping thing. There is all this emphasis on potentially shippable software, there is this emphasis on software being built and tested, but look: we’ve lost our ability to use code to build rough stuff to see if we’re building the right thing." "More and more I talk about learning velocity vs. building velocity." "If you’re trying to learn something the most expensive way is to build production quality software." "Building the wrong thing at high quality is waste." „If there is gonna be a contemporary agile way of building things t’s gonna be this mix of product thinking and customer centric thinking and Agile thinking and I’ll be honest: It’ll break the Agile Manifesto." Great final words "What makes a product better is not more stuff, it’s good stuff." Links Jeff Patton Associates Jeff Patton: User Story Mapping  Kent Beck: Extreme Programming Explained Pivotal Tracker Pivotal CEO Rob Mee Alistair Cockburn

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In this episode consultant, author, and agile thought leader Jeff Patton shows us how to use Story Maps to create a shared understanding of a feature and create thin slices that relate to the minimum viable product and additional releases.  Jeff also shares his thoughts on the proper way to use User Stories and how to avoid […] The post MBA016: User Story Mapping with Jeff Patton appeared first on Mastering Business Analysis.

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