Outgage vs. StoriesOnBoard

I think of Outgage more as a partner than a vendor. If you are just looking for a one time giveaway or single marketing campaign, you may be able to find alternative vendors that can satisfy what you need. However, if you are interested in a long-term partner that looks at your business needs holistically, brings the latest trends to you, continuously works on improving its service portfolio to better serve you, and has your cost optimization at heart, you will want to reach out to Outgage. At the same time, I enjoy that they never try to sell me anything; it feels like an ongoing brainstorming session to find ways to improve my business and marketing efforts.

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As mentioned earlier, we also use StoriesOnBoard to create other processes (customer and employee journey). We use the swim lanes to differentiate between measures, tools and processes and working with them is very easy and understandable for this purpose.

Less easy is the use of context, i.e. when one part of a story map depends on another story map. This cannot be avoided (at least for us) to avoid creating redundancy (and the risk of creating different stages). At appropriate places, we refer to the other map in the title.

• Online Platform.
• Reliable long-term partnership.
• Large and growing network to highest quality vendors.
• Turn-key solutions.
• Expert customer support.

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• User role management
• Jira integration
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Filtering by personas

• Potential to improve lead times.

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• Switching the view to a vertical mode (easier to scroll).
• Better availability of information on user story mapping.
• Possibility to link to activities and steps from other maps (Context).

StoriesOnBoard works really well; all features are well thought through. It could look a bit fresher, although the new updated dashboard is already much better than it was.

The only other competitor we looked at was cardboardit.com. Both had solid functionality, but StoriesOnBoard was more user-friendly and quick to learn and use in our opinion.

• Increased customer satisfaction.

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• StoriesOnBoard (and story mapping in general) creates a low-cost visual method of aligning on high-level business and technical requirements early in a project and provides an ongoing reference as the project progresses. Having this alignment is critical for the later stages of the project.