StoriesOnBoard

StoriesOnBoard is a comprehensive and collaborative product management platform designed to bring clarity and efficiency to software development projects. At its core, the tool utilizes the powerful technique of user story mapping to create a visual, easy-to-understand product backlog. This approach ensures that all stakeholders, from developers to executives, share a common understanding of the product vision and user journey. The platform has been enhanced with powerful AI capabilities, transforming it into an intelligent assistant for the entire product management lifecycle.

The platform is more than just a mapping tool; it's an integrated suite that covers every stage of product development. It starts with idea and insight management, allowing teams to capture user feedback from various channels like Slack, email, and Intercom (via Zapier) and organize it in a central repository. These insights can then be transformed into actionable feature ideas. The AI assistant can accelerate this process by generating user personas, brainstorming user stories, and even filling in gaps in the product narrative. This ensures that the backlog is not only well-structured but also deeply rooted in user needs.

How to use StoriesOnBoard

Using StoriesOnBoard follows a logical and intuitive workflow designed to guide teams from concept to execution:

1. Create a Story Map: Begin by creating a new story map. You can start from a blank canvas, use a pre-built template, or leverage the AI by simply describing your product idea. The AI will then generate a foundational map with user goals, journey steps, and initial user stories.
2. Define Personas and Journeys: Flesh out your target audience by creating detailed user personas. The AI can help generate these personas to align with your product goals. Map out the user's journey by defining high-level goals and the sequential steps they take to achieve them.
3. Brainstorm and Detail User Stories: Under each step of the journey, brainstorm and add user stories. Use the AI to generate detailed user stories, complete with acceptance criteria, test cases, and technical specifications. This saves significant time and ensures consistency.
4. Prioritize and Plan Releases: Switch to the prioritization view to score backlog items using established frameworks like RICE, Value vs. Effort, or MoSCoW. This collaborative feature helps in making objective decisions. Once prioritized, you can slice the story map to define releases, such as the Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
5. Build and Share Roadmaps: Create high-level roadmaps (e.g., Release Roadmap, Epic Roadmap, or a Portfolio Roadmap for multiple products) to communicate your product strategy and vision to stakeholders. These visual roadmaps are easy to share and track.
6. Integrate and Synchronize: Connect StoriesOnBoard with your favorite issue-tracking tools like Jira, Azure DevOps, Trello, or GitHub. The two-way synchronization keeps your story map and development backlog perfectly aligned.
7. Track Progress: Monitor the progress of your releases and iterations using the Kanban-style board or detailed status reports. Identify bottlenecks and keep everyone informed about the project's status.

Core Features of StoriesOnBoard

• AI-Powered Assistance: Generate user personas, goals, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release summaries in seconds. The AI helps fill gaps, brainstorm new ideas, and supports multiple languages.
• Visual User Story Mapping: Create dynamic, three-level story maps (Goals -> Steps -> Stories) on an unlimited, collaborative canvas to visualize the entire user journey and product backlog.
• Integrated Product Management Suite: A single platform for idea & insight management, roadmapping, prioritization, and release planning.
• Advanced Roadmapping: Build flexible, shareable roadmaps with swimlanes, labels, and real-time status tracking. Includes portfolio roadmaps for a multi-product overview.
• Collaborative Prioritization Frameworks: Utilize built-in methods like RICE, Value vs. Effort, and MoSCoW to make confident, data-driven product decisions with your team.
• Centralized Insight & Feedback Hub: Aggregate user feedback from email, Slack, and Intercom via Zapier. Link insights directly to feature ideas and validate your roadmap.
• Seamless Two-Way Integrations: Deep integration with Jira (Cloud & Server), Azure DevOps, Trello, GitHub, and Pivotal Tracker to keep development workflows in sync.
• Enterprise-Grade Security & Compliance: ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliant infrastructure, with features like SAML SSO, audit logging, and fine-grained access controls for secure corporate use.

Use Cases for StoriesOnBoard

StoriesOnBoard is versatile and serves various roles within an organization:

• Product Managers & Owners: For defining product vision, building and managing a transparent backlog, prioritizing features based on value, and communicating strategic roadmaps.
• Business Analysts: To visually capture and communicate project requirements, ensuring a clear and comprehensive overview for clients and development teams.
• Agile Development Teams: To gain a shared understanding of the 'why' behind their work, collaborate more effectively, and see how individual tasks contribute to the larger user journey.
• UX/UI Designers: To create user-centric product designs by mapping out complete user journeys and ensuring the development backlog reflects the ideal user experience.
• Enterprise Leaders: For managing complex product portfolios, standardizing product management processes across teams, and ensuring security and compliance at scale.

Advantages of StoriesOnBoard

The key advantages of using StoriesOnBoard include improved clarity, efficiency, and collaboration. The visual nature of the story map breaks down complex projects into understandable parts, aligning everyone on the team. The AI features dramatically reduce the time spent on manual documentation and brainstorming, allowing teams to focus on strategy and innovation. By centralizing feedback and using structured prioritization, the platform empowers teams to make smarter, data-informed decisions. Ultimately, it fosters a collaborative environment where a shared vision leads to building better products, faster.

Pricing and Plans

StoriesOnBoard offers two main product lines with different pricing tiers, both with discounts for annual billing:

1. Story Mapping Tool: Focused on the core story mapping functionality.
   • Basic: $19 for the first user, then $9/user/month. Includes 50k AI Tokens/month, 1 product, unlimited story maps, and basic integrations.
   • Standard: $26 for the first user, then $12/user/month. Includes 100k AI Tokens/month, 10 products, and two-way integrations with Jira, Azure DevOps, Trello, etc.
   • Pro: $45 for the first user, then $15/user/month. Includes 150k AI Tokens/month, unlimited products, and advanced security features like SSO.
2. Product Management Platform: An all-in-one solution.
   • Personal: $16/month for 1 user. Includes 20k AI Tokens/month, 1 product, and basic access to story mapping, roadmaps, prioritization, and idea management.
   • Plus: $29/user/month. Includes 100k AI Tokens/month, 10 products, unlimited story maps, full roadmapping, and advanced idea management features.
   • Premium: $55/user/month. Includes 150k AI Tokens/month, unlimited products, advanced security features (SSO), and priority support.

An Enterprise plan is also available for large organizations, offering custom solutions, volume discounts, and dedicated support.