Test plans are often secondary to story tests (aka acceptance tests) for an individual story.While this helps focus on finding the value of a story, it often missing the mark in an enterprise setting where real value comes from delivering a collection of stories. Large scale (enterprise ) agility often goes beyond a single story and spans stories and teams. Story maps are an excellent tool for visualizing cross cutting needs like testing across stories and other challenges that cut across teams. Story maps are a simple and excellent tool that foster cross cutting thinking and learning. Along with connecting testers who care about testing that spans stories, story maps are also excellent tools for connecting other cross cutting perspectives: architecture, user experience, sub teams and end user documentation. This session will teach participants to use story maps to address the many challenges that face large scale (enterprise) agility. Participants will work in groups to utilize story maps as tools for situational challenges and realities faced by multi-team and distributed team agile usage.
http://submit2012.agilealliance.org/files/session_pdfs/StoryMapsTestPlansAndOtherCrossCutting.pdf
