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User Story Mapping Workshop

by deanpeters in deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills

Facilitates a live story-mapping session with adaptive questions, turning a flat backlog into a map and a release slice.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedProduct & Project Management

Install User Story Mapping Workshop

skills CLI
$ npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill user-story-mapping-workshop -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills user-story-mapping-workshop --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/user-story-mapping-workshop .claude/skills/user-story-mapping-workshop && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
user-story-mapping-workshop
GitHub stars
7.2k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~4.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,495 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
75
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Facilitates a live story-mapping session with adaptive questions, turning a flat backlog into a map and a release slice.

  • Works in 4 steps: Entire product — "Full end-to-end system… → Major feature area — "Specific workflow… → User journey — "Specific user goal or… → …
  • Running a live workshop to build a story map with a team
  • SKILL.md covers Purpose, Input, Key Concepts and Application, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

The backbone of essential activities runs left to right in narrative order, user tasks descend vertically by priority under each one, and the highest-priority row across every activity forms what the method calls a walking skeleton, the smallest end-to-end functionality worth building first. Questions about the system and its users open the session and adapt from there, building incrementally left-to-right and top-to-bottom rather than finishing one feature before starting the next, aiming to avoid what it calls context-free mulch: stories that lost their connection to the overall system narrative.

When your agent uses it

  • Running a live workshop to build a story map with a team
  • Turning a flat backlog into a visual, workflow-ordered map
  • Defining a first release slice from a mapped user workflow

Example prompts

  • “Run a story mapping workshop for our vendor onboarding portal.”
  • “Facilitate a session to map the claims-review workflow with the team.”
  • “Help us find the walking skeleton for this new feature area.”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Entire product — "Full end-to-end system from discovery to completion" (Common for new products or full rewrites)
  2. Major feature area — "Specific workflow within a larger product (e.g., 'onboarding,' 'checkout,' 'reporting')" (Common for feature launches)
  3. User journey — "Specific user goal or job-to-be-done (e.g., 'hire a contractor,' 'file taxes')" (Common for JTBD-driven mapping)
  4. Redesign/refactor — "Existing product/feature being rebuilt or simplified" (Common for legacy system modernization)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1b5a524. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

User Story Mapping Workshop loads about 4.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 49 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,495 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~49
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~4.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,495 words (~4,206 tokens).

“Guide product managers through creating a user story map by asking adaptive questions about the system, users, workflow, and priorities—then generating a two-dimensional map with backbone (activities), user tasks, and release slices. Use this to move from flat backlogs to…”

— opening of SKILL.md by deanpeters, Custom licence
name
user-story-mapping-workshop
argument-hint
[system or workflow]
intent
Guide product managers through creating a user story map by asking adaptive questions about the system, users, workflow, and priorities—then generating a…
type
interactive
theme
workshops-facilitation
best_for
Running a facilitated story mapping session with a real team, Building a backbone, tasks, and release slices collaboratively, Getting a shared view of the…
scenarios
I'm facilitating a mapping session tomorrow and need the structure and questions, The team needs a shared map of the workflow before we can scope an MVP
estimated_time
60-120 min

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/user-story-mapping-workshop of deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • template.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1b5a524

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about User Story Mapping Workshop

What does User Story Mapping Workshop do?

Facilitates a live story-mapping session with adaptive questions, turning a flat backlog into a map and a release slice. The backbone of essential activities runs left to right in narrative order, user tasks descend vertically by priority under each one, and the highest-priority row across every activity forms what the method calls a walking skeleton, the smallest end-to-end functionality worth building first. Questions about the system and its users open the session and adapt from there, building incrementally left-to-right and top-to-bottom rather than finishing one feature before starting the next, aiming to avoid what it calls context-free mulch: stories that lost their connection to the overall system narrative.

When should I use User Story Mapping Workshop?

User Story Mapping Workshop fits situations like: running a live workshop to build a story map with a team; turning a flat backlog into a visual, workflow-ordered map; defining a first release slice from a mapped user workflow.

How do I install User Story Mapping Workshop in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill user-story-mapping-workshop -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/user-story-mapping-workshop in deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills) into .claude/skills/user-story-mapping-workshop in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install User Story Mapping Workshop in Codex?

Run `npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill user-story-mapping-workshop -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/user-story-mapping-workshop in deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills) into .agents/skills/user-story-mapping-workshop in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use User Story Mapping Workshop in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill user-story-mapping-workshop -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/user-story-mapping-workshop, .gemini/skills/user-story-mapping-workshop, .github/skills/user-story-mapping-workshop and .opencode/skills/user-story-mapping-workshop in your project.

What does User Story Mapping Workshop need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: User Story Mapping Workshop is instructions for the agent only.

Does User Story Mapping Workshop access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is User Story Mapping Workshop safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does User Story Mapping Workshop use?

User Story Mapping Workshop has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does User Story Mapping Workshop use?

About 4.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 17k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to User Story Mapping Workshop?

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Who maintains User Story Mapping Workshop?

deanpeters (a GitHub user) maintains it in deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, which has 7,224 GitHub stars. The repository holds 75 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 1, 2026.

Source: deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.