StoriesOnBoard Reviews

It's now an important part of our work

Pros

If you're familiar with story mapping in development, this pro might seem obvious. But if you're not, my top two features would be the collaborative story mapping feature and the road mapping and project reporting tools that come with it.

Cons

There's not a lot I don't like about the software. If I ever find something off I contact support and they fix it fast so its hard to find any real cons.

A tool for making product ideas perfect

Pros

The keyboard control, support, modern look design, filter and color options look really cool to me

Cons

Selecting lots of cards and adding colors to the redesigned maps is slower now, it used to be much faster before.

A flexible tool made for product teams

Pros

It's super easy to pick up and use, I think it's really focused on making product management better.

Cons

There isn't a whiteboard feature, which would be useful at certain steps, and connecting Miro would be great

Essential for my job

Pros

I really like how StoriesOnBoard lets me and my team see our projects while we talk about them. It makes understanding everything a lot easier. if it's a big software project or planning home renovations, I can see everything. In meeting with clients, it's the first thing we use to figure out the scope and make estimates and put together an offer, and check how stuff is happening

Cons

One small thing is that Excel export is not very good. It turns some data to comments instead of new columns and I am hoping for an integration where I can add a story map in a whiteboarding tool like Miro to help with same info around the map.

Super satisfied!

Pros

In my meetings, which include both offline and online participants, StoriesOnBoard helps me keep everything organized, especially when we're thinking about product design and the entire process. The best part is that the results are easy to update during meetings or export to Excel or PDF for sharing within the team

Cons

I wish I could tell my organization to use this tool more.

Great story mapping experience

Pros

It supports personas, activities, and user steps, giving you a clear overview of the product.

Cons

Nothing to mention here, its easy to use and gives nice and complete view of the product backlog.

An awesome product with a lot of features

Pros

There are lots of features available in the product. I just think about what I need and I instantly find it here.

Cons

i haven't found any problem yet but I just started using it, I wanna have more time to figure out if there are any.

Most functional Story Mapping tool

Pros

The User Experience is so easy to use. You don;t need any training and it's simple to make a real story experience just like using a traditional physical wall.

Cons

High price for all of my African clients. They can pay some, but they sometimes back off when they see the cost, still they've had a great experience in past story mapping sessions.

Makes everything way less stressful

Pros

StoriesOnBoard doesn't try to do everything, and that's why I love it. It does what it needs to do good. It gives you a good view of your features and giives a space to plan and make stories before they go into a build. I use it a lot to add features and stories and tasks that I need for a product build and even before the build's structure is built. Once you are in the tool, using it you can move stories and split them if they are big and combine same stories and push them to Jira to manage. You can also pull the backlog from Jira to organize the future sprints and releases.

Cons

There are two features Id love to see. First, StoriesOnBoard currently connects to only one Jira instance, which works for product companies but isn't ideal for consultants who need to connect to both their own and their clients Jiras. I hear multi instance Jira support is coming, and I can't wait for that. Second, I'd like to see sprint level swimlanes, right now, I can use releases labeled Sprint 1, Sprint 2, etc., but it's more work, having this feature built-in would make it much easier

Good tool overall

Pros

Story management is good and the support is also good they help out whenever help is needed

Cons

No API but having the GET operation is a good start!