User story mapping with GitHub

Sync your Avion story maps with GitHub for a powerful user-centric backlog and delivery machine.

User story mapping with Avion and GitHub

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User story mapping with Avion and GitHub

How to combine story mapping with GitHub

  • Step one of the simple integration setup process

    Step 1

    Use our simple setup process to integrate your story map with GitHub. There are many options available to experiment with.

  • Step two of the simple integration setup process

    Step 2

    Start your discovery and planning in Avion, focusing on user experience and what will create value for your users.

  • Step three of the simple integration setup process

    Step 3

    When you have a release ready for developers to work on, push the release over to GitHub. The stories are now in-sync. Any changes made in either tool will be immediately synced.

  • Step four of the simple integration setup process

    Step 4

    Monitor the progress of the release in Avion as development work takes place in GitHub. Rinse and repeat.

Why integrate GitHub with a user story map in Avion?

Make sense of the mess

Problem

Projects in GitHub can be daunting, messy and highly technical. This is not always the best view for understanding product and progress.

Solution

Give stakeholders (and yourself) a user-friendly, customer-centric view of your product and plans in Avion.

Flat backlogs are... well, flat

Problem

A long list of things to do in a GitHub Project doesn't give you any sense of the user experience and journey your customers take. Planning without this is madness.

Solution

Create backlogs and roadmaps in Avion and leave GitHub for delivery tracking and code — which it's actually great for.

De-couple product planning and delivery

Problem

GitHub is great for tracking what's happening now and how it relates to code, but it's not the right environment for planning experiences and solving product problems.

Solution

Create rich plans and roadmaps in Avion that plug right into Github. This de-couples your planning and delivery, whilst keeping them in-sync.

Manage and communicate your dependencies

Problem

Planning dependencies in GitHub is no easy task. It's some custom fields or nothing really.

Solution

Avion is a visual environment with tailor-made dependency mapping. Use your story maps to communicate dependencies with wider stakeholders.

Dream up your perfect setup

We seriously sweat over the technical details over here. That's why we've created an integration with options to suit lots of different teams and projects. Whatever you want to achieve, there will be an integration option to support it.

Elements
Element in Avion
Element in GitHub

Stories

Stories are like features or ideas

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Project cards

Move from planning to execution with ease

Journeys and steps

These make up your user experience during planning

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Labels

Every story with context from the story map

Releases

Collections of stories that make up user value

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Labels

Track releases in GitHub with labels

Tags

Add more context to planning

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Labels

Keep context and automate workflows

Story states

Track progress during planning

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Board columns

Sync progress from delivery

Story sizes

Point values to add predictability to planning

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Labels

Transfer planning predictions to delivery

Read the nitty-gritty details in our docs

Read the docs

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