What are the 5 parts of a story map?
The Group Story-Mapping Strategy in this study contained five main areas for recording a narrative story's (a) setting, (b) characters, (c) problem, (d) solution, and (e) opinion.
What comes first epic or user story?
Start With Epics Before User Stories
When you first start planning an agile development project, all of your user stories will likely be in epic form. Then, as the Product Owner starts prioritizing, the most important of those epics will be broken down, down, down into much smaller user stories.