Build a story map that flows left to right, following your user's journey through your product. Create the backbone with epics representing key user activities. Organise user stories beneath each activity to show what's needed at each step. The map keeps the user front and centre — not lost in a list of tickets.

When everything's laid out horizontally by user journey and vertically by priority, you can see the whole story. Create sprint or version swimlanes to group releases into customer value. Focus on delivering complete user journeys, not isolated features.

Story mapping works best when the whole team participates. Quick create and drag-and-drop make it easy to add stories, spot gaps, and reorganise as you discuss. Everyone walks away with a shared mental model of what you're building, why, and for who.

TeamRhythm keeps your story map in Jira where work actually happens. Stories flow directly into sprints. Dependencies stay visible. The map remains your single source of truth from planning through delivery always current, always connected.

Get the benefits of user story maps whether your SAFe, hybrid SAFe or Kanban, no matter which method you choose to follow, you can build and share user story maps on any Jira board in minutes.