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  1. Getting started

What is Avion?

Avion is a product planning tool with a strict focus on user story mapping. We believe that story mapping demands that you plan products around your end user journeys and experience.

Last updated 1 year ago

Avion helps product teams plan and build software by creating a form of product backlog called a user story map. Story maps are a highly valuable tool that help you get from "big ideas" to a viable development plan, whilst keeping the focus on your end users' experience. Avion allows you to perform this process digitally and makes story mapping collaborative, fun and easy.

Avion is for you if your team struggles:

  • Keeping your users at the heart of everything you build

  • Figuring out how to get from designs to an actionable development plan and backlog

  • Repeatedly delivering features with gaps, making them less valuable to users

  • Having effective conversations around your backlog

  • Deciding what order to ship features in

  • Gaining a big picture view of your progress across many user stories

The fastest way to get to know Avion is with our short 6-part video series. These bite-size videos show you an end-to-end process of making something great in Avion.

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