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Michael
Verified reviewer
Financial Services, 201-500 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2021
Intuitive and Frictionless
It is the best storyboarding tool on the market.
PROSThis application makes story mapping simple and collaborative for distributed teams. The integration with Jira saves a tremendous amount of time and ensures that everyone is kept updated with the latest thinking.
CONSI would like to see personas developed to allow for filtering and more complex journeys.
Reason for choosing StoriesOnBoard
I have used a multitude of storyboarding solutions over the years, this one is the best by far.
Vendor Response
Hi Michael, thank you for your positive review on our tool. Actually, one of our latest new features includes filtering by personas. Find a detailed description on how it's done at the bottom of our last blog post: https://storiesonboard.com/blog/advanced-user-persona-design-for-user-story-mapping We really hope that helps. Cheers, The StoriesOnBoard Team
Replied February 2021
Anonymous
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2017
StoriesOnBoard provides a much needed holistic view of the project work that needs to be completed.
This software gives be a high level view of the work that needs to be implemented instead of just the current iteration's work. It is very easy to use and have the team participate.
PROSStoriesOnBoard filled a gap between the planning meetings and the day to day project execution. Before it was difficult for the project team and manager to see the big picture of the goals of the project as we were either using a physical wall to track tasks or a task tracking tool. Having team members remote, it was very difficult to work just using a physical project board. StoriesOnBoard allows the entire team to see the board online, quickly see the status of the tasks and easily update the tasks. There is virtually no learning curve to use this product, which is very important to team members who need to use their allocated time to do the work for the project rather than trying to figure out how to use a project tracking tool. As the project manager, I also like the ability to export to a spreadsheet format.
CONSWe are an office 365 shop. Would like to see some type of integration there rather than just export.
Wilfrido
Verified reviewer
Internet, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2017
Not so easy to use if you try to move more than 1 card to another place.
an easy way to express the client in a digital way a story map
PROSThe possibility to make a story map, is a novel tool, easy to use in some aspects, integration with tools like Jira is simple and easy to use. the view of 2 and 3 levels seems like a good idea.
CONS313/5000 exchanging cards between columns is so simple, in some cases it is complicated, we do not have a possibility of moving in lots or multiple selection of cards, it creates a card is not so simple, there is no quick search, the printing option is not friendly, export in XLS could be better.
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2017
Stories on Board is a simple, easy to use agile user story mapping tool. Love it!
Fast and simple to set up and use Works great for facilitating agile story mapping workshops with business and IT stakeholders
PROSMy team used Stories on Board as our story mapping tool of choice for a requirements definition project with a client. We ran 8-10 story mapping workshops using the tool and documenting the stories as we progressed through the workshops. The client loved the tool as did we. It was very effective for capturing the stories, quickly moving things around as priorities shifted or became more clear (e.g., capturing Minimum Viable Product). We used the color coding feature extensively to help us and the client track which stories were (1) identified but not yet documented, (2) partially or full documented but not yet agreed, and (3) fully agreed by the client. It was effective at capturing the major workflow associated with the epic-level story, and then breaking those down into individual story cards. We assessed a few other tools but found them to be too complicated and/or too expensive for what we needed. We wanted something simple and Stories on Board fit our need.
CONSOur client didn't use the tool, so we had to export everything into Excel and/or Word for delivery to them at the end of the process, which was a bit cumbersome. Not really a knock on the tool though; would have been easier if the client would have just used the tool also!
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2017
Great product for forming a product backlog & visualizing customer journey with teams
I am a fan of the story mapping process and StoriesOnBoard does the right things to allow collaboration around that process. It's hugely helpful for building a board and not worrying about the tool. It's easy enough to use that you can dive right in. We use it to improve our early project planning and have definitely seen the benefit throughout the life of the project.
PROSLove the intuitive interface--easy to search your workspace, cards feel real, two level collapsed board view, story map panning & zooming works great. Good keyboard shortcuts. Overall I'd describe it as streamlined and pleasant to use. They highlight counts of cards, allow you to use labels, collapse and expand, manage users & see an activity feed, etc. Yes, you can connect your workspace to your JIRA instance and keep cards synchronized between map & project. I get the feeling that the team cares about delivering a great product to their users from the updates they make and the tone/content of the newsletter.
CONSLike many comparable software products, you must upgrade to have the import/export functionality or JIRA integration. I also wish there were an easier way to share a snapshot of a board. Sometimes I need to share a view of the board with a stakeholder, I want them to be able to quickly view without having to login, and a PDF or screenshot won't cut it.
Jeremy
Verified reviewer
Education Management, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used monthly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2021
Product Story Mapping on Student Projects
We use Stories on Board with our student teams to get them to understand the product/solution better than just diving into the coding. This system allow for them to really lay out the product in advance and then use the map to help everyone know where they are with their work.
PROSI like the ability to be able to easily do the release planning right from your story map. Also the GitHub integration saved the teams a ton of time.
CONSThe user interface is still a little clunky. Sometimes you are not sure how to do a task so you have to try something and potentially back it out to correct things.
Reason for choosing StoriesOnBoard
I really liked all of the additional educational aspects that were with Stories on Board. Also, they really understood the story mapping process and how it should be visualized. It seemed that other systems really missed the mark on that.
Vendor Response
Hi Jeremy, Thank you for your review on StoriesOnBoard. We are so happy to hear you found all our educative content helpful! In case you are having trouble finding anything, feel free to message our support team via the Intercom bubble, they are here to help. Cheers, The StoriesOnBoard Team
Replied April 2021
Kerry
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used monthly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
2
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed January 2021
Does the main thing well, but needs an upgrade
StoriesOnBoard is a great tool to get your user stories written, organized, and prioritized. And another great thing about it is that you can then import those stories directly into Jira or other project management platforms to begin work. However, the the lack of realtime collaboration is definitely an Achille's heel, and the interface is still clunky. For example, you organize your stories in columns, but if you then want to create a 2nd iteration of the product, you have to use all the same columns, so the work for the 2nd iteration still includes ALL the columns from the first iteration, even if many of those columns had all of their work completed in the first iteration.
PROSStoriesOnBoard is the primary tool used in my industry for organizing user stories, and the reason is because they are one of the first tools to come up with a nice, visual way to view all of your user stories together so that you can make planning and prioritization decisions. That being said, the platform hasn't really moved beyond that basic premise to provide the type of value product managers are looking for in a tool like this today.
CONSRealtime collaboration doesn't exist in StoriesOnBoard. This is a major deficiency of the product. In today's world, tools like Miro are replacing StoriesOnBoard (even though they don't have easy ways to attach details or estimates to the stories) simply because they allow realtime collaboration by groups of people. Stories On Board is really only designed to have one person editing the board at a time.
Vendor Response
Hi Kerry, We really appreciate your thoughts on our tool and fully agree with you. Our new dashboard was the first step towards an upgrade. Given your experiences with the tool, we would love to interview you, if you're open to that. Regards, STOB Team
Replied February 2021
Venkataramana
Verified reviewer
Publishing, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed December 2017
It is an must have tool for all organizations which have multiple depended projects.
It gives a one place access to get information on all running projects. It has some excellent options to customize and group the cards based on the type of work, Project. The swim lines options is very useful in prioritizing the work.
CONSThe UI/UX has to be tweaked a bit to be more keyboard friendly. There are not many keyboard shortcuts. Deleting a card is bit painful as it is a 2 step process.
Jake
Verified reviewer
Media Production, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed November 2017
Using the product for road-mapping and stakeholder presentations.
A clear description of our product road map that we can use to communicate to stakeholders.
PROSIt's simple to follow the flow of what we are working on as a product team. The parent-child relationships of the cards make features and functionality easy to define for stakeholders and team members.
CONSWould love to see some more flexibility in how cards can be created and managed. More layers would also be helpful.
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2020
Used StoriesOnBoard to engage users, discuss priorities and clarify requirements
I feel StoriesOnBoard really added value to our project. A great, non-intrusive way to manage your user stories. Also, any queries we had were quickly picked up by the team. Great tool.
PROSThe software is extremely intuitive and very visually oriented. This allows non-technical project members to understand and use it in no time at all. We used it mostly during meetings and as a collaboration tool. The software can do much, much more but we needed it first and foremost to communicate and get a shared feeling of what the project result should be.
CONSWould have liked some more attributes to categorize cards.
Joe
Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed April 2021
Easy to use, easy to set up, but limited feature set
For the price, unbeatable. Easy to use and incredibly intuitive, even for employees unfamiliar with the story user story process.
PROSIncredibly easy to set up, thanks to the very intuitive user interface. All features are clearly laid out and easy to comprehend.
CONSFeature set, especially communication tools are limited. I wish I could more easily assign cards to a specific user, or leave a comment intended for a specific user.
Reason for choosing StoriesOnBoard
More complete feature set.
Reasons for switching to StoriesOnBoard
Pricing and functionality.
Vendor Response
Hi Joe, Thank you for your review on StoriesOnBoard. Some other features are now on our backlog, but we'll definitely consider making some improvements to make collaboration easier. Cheers, The StoriesOnBoard Team
Replied April 2021
Daniel
Financial Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2017
Awesome product to organise your epics and user stories
Improved transparency and collaboration for our team
PROSOne of the best story mapping tool I came across. Very easy to navigate around, manage & categorise stories, releases/milestones planning, Jira integration, export to excel... Has all the flexibility we need at the right price.
CONSWhile there are some minor usability annoyances there is nothing major to complain about. I would love to see soon some better searching & filtering capability.
Robin
Computer Software, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2021
Great for remove sprint 0
My company uses this for our story maps and it has been an easy way to get our cards from the in-person sessions to the online view. While we have remote sprint 0s, we have used SOB online to replace the in-person session.
CONSThere is no way to move multiple cards at once with a ctrl+click or shift+click.
Vendor Response
Hi Robin, Thank you for your meaningful feedback. As for multiple card selection, it has been a feature in discussion, but the logic of placing them correctly is rather ambiguous. It's not always clear where they should go. Regards, StoriesOnBoard Team
Replied January 2021
Sachin
Consumer Electronics, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2018
Excellent tool
Stories managed in one place without cluttering of additional detail which is not required for stories.
CONSMobile option is not that great and may need improvement also it will good if can have bots for managing it.
Yash
Information Technology and Services, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2021
Digitalize your sticky notes and task board
The best feature I like about this software is the integration with JIRA. The card integrates will JIRA and its on my board. The other great thing about it is that we can divide the project into multiple releases.
CONSNot sure if we had an option to reverse integrate from JIRA stories to stories on board. This would be a good addition as existing projects could be onboarded easily.
Vendor Response
Hi Yash, Thank you so much for your feedback. We are glad you're getting a lot of value out of our JIRA integration. We have a two way sync with JIRA which you can find more info about here: http://docs.storiesonboard.com/en/?q=jira If you're still having trouble setting it up, drop us a message via the Intercom widget! We're here to help. Cheers, The StoriesOnBoard Team
Replied April 2021
Anonymous
1,001-5,000 employees
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2019
Great Tool for easy storyboarding
We are trying to identify gaps in functionality with our product and StoriesOnBoard helps us clearly find and fill those gaps by allowing us to see what functionality we have and haven't thought of yet.
PROSThe ease of use when coming up with epics, features and user stories.
CONSI would like if there was a way to enlarge the cards, so those with larger titles aren't cut off and need to be clicked to view the name in entirety. Also, I would like if there was a way to add notes/comments to the board at-large, not just to individual cards.
Wouter
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2023
Very happy with StoriesOnBoard
I often have meetings where we bring together a large group of offline and online stakeholders, StoriesOnBoard has helped me structure this meeting while we are brainstorming on product design and the E2E process. The result is easily improved during follow-up meetings or exported to an Excel or pdf and shared within the organisation.
CONSI wish I could motivate my organisation to work more in this tool.
Vendor Response
Hi Wouter, Thank you for your review on StoriesOnBoard. We really appreciate our partnership. Cheers, The StoriesOnBoard Team
Replied May 2023
John
Verified reviewer
Higher Education, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2019
Simple & Powerful
I will use the tool in an Applied Product Management class for MBAs to create customer journey maps (now and later), and iterations for proposed solutions. To learn the tool I am using it to map the components/modules for the entire class - which is working great.
PROS- very intuitive - very straight forward - nothing "in the way" - it is exactly what it says it is - pro-active support that accelerates use
CONS- I have not found any challenges yet
Anonymous
501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed September 2018
Easy to use user story board
General overview of all stories is the main feature. The tool gives good support for release planning
PROSIt is easy to use and provides godd possibilities for documentation of stories (picures, links, text)
CONSWe had to drop this wonderful tool because it doesn't provide any synchronization of the epics with Jira (only the stories are synchronized)
Krzysztof
Verified reviewer
11-50 employees
Used monthly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed December 2017
Definitely my choice for online User Story Mapping
Convienient way of sharing User Story Mapping results with team & clients.
PROSPleasant look. Easy editing with shortcuts. Brilliant integration with Trello & other. Just the right amount of features - has what you need, but doesn't feel bloated.
CONSSome quirks in Safari/Mac. Sometimes I feel a need for one more level at the top of the map (eg. "Actor" above "Activity")
Anandan
Verified reviewer
51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed November 2017
It helped view bigger picture and categories stories easily
Storyboard view. Moving stories across different releases is easy. Updating the story title without opening the story is a plus.
CONSEditing on the storyboard is not very intuitive. Integration capabilities are limited. The export option can be improved to be integrated.
Anonymous
10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed September 2018
Great way to clarify needs and goals!
So easy for non-technical types and non-project managers to use. Good guidance and examples about what makes for a good story.
CONSI wish the right-click context menu was more functional, e.g. delete a card via right click.
Anna
Verified reviewer
Outsourcing/Offshoring, 5,001-10,000 employees
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2018
great tool for story mapping technique
I couldn't find any other tool for Story mapping online, so it was really great to experience it and outline story mapping for the project, have a really good picture, share it and discuss together with colleagues.
PROSI really like the ease of creating cards and that I can share it online and collaborate with colleges. Also the new feature - tagging of the user jorney's is really good.
CONSI'd like to see more flexibility in release lanes, sometimes there is a lot of white space between cards, maybe as an idea, have a release as an attribute and the line would be drawn by itself once card is assigned to release
Craig
Verified reviewer
Non-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2021
Closest Solution to Stickies on a Whiteboard You'll Find W/ Lots of Extra Features
It works great. I wish it was a bit more polished, but otherwise, it is awesome.
PROS- How accurately it looks like a physical story map - Ease of creating release schedules - Jira integration
CONS- Some UX bugs - Lack of browser spell check support (this is a big one for me)
Vendor Response
Hey Craig, Thank you for your review and tip on spell check support. We haven't received requests on this feature until now, so it hasn't been on our radar, but we'll definitely examine it more closely. Cheers, The StoriesOnBoard Team
Replied April 2021
Marykate
Legal Services, 10,000+ employees
Used less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2018
Tech not for me but this help
I am new to tech and the developers at my company had me use this so we could flush out and build the ideas for what we wanted. I loved how easy it was for someone with no development background or tech. I was able to start using it and felt productive.
CONSNothing really comes to mind. I did not use the tool daily or take a deep dive so maybe if I had there would possibly be something to note.