Story Map

The Story Map app helps you build a backlog of work based on the activities your users need to accomplish. It shows all of the high level themes your users need to do, broken down into the smaller stories a user would do as part of each theme. For example, a simple auction site might use a story map like this:

In Rally, all of the activities are stored as user stories, so you can prioritize, plan, and track them. You can learn more about Story Maps here.

Creating a Story Map

To use the Story Map, add your high-level themes first. These will automatically be created as stories tagged "Theme" in Rally.

Then select the theme you want to elaborate, and add some children to list the stories your users need to do as part of the larger theme. These will be stored as child stories on the theme story.

Moving Children

You can re-rank child stories by dragging them. You can also move them under different parent themes by dragging.

Adding Details

Clicking on the name of a story will take you to its detail page, where you can add a description and other details.