November 17th
Idea Panel on the story map
Had dozens of ideas on the idea board but struggled with processing them to the story map? This improvement is for you.
From now, you can open the list of all your product ideas while working on the user story map.😱
Simply open the Idea Panel by hitting the light-bulb icon on the top-right corner:
How to use it
Ideas are great containers for gathering insights, ideas, feedback around a topic, but they rarely a precise user stories - so instead of providing a 'convert' feature, you can create the user stories on the story map like other backlog items. If you incorporated all the valuable information to backlog items, you can mark an Idea as processed. (processed ideas are aligned to the bottom of the list)
If you need more than just the idea title, you can simply open the idea and read all the information included in the description and open all the attachments
Moreover, Insights, as tiny lego-bricks of the Idea are also displayed and you can mark them as processed
To make it more convenient you can easily search among ideas or filter by Idea tag and/or Idea status
There's one more thing: 'processed' marks are only relate to the current story map and if ideas are relevant in other story maps, you can use the tag independently from other story maps.