A User Story Map is a plan of work for a project structured around themes, behaviour and significant milestones. A story map bridges the gap between your milestones and day to day work executed on your Kanban board. The team should be able to use the story to understand what to do next and how it relates to the current milestone.

A story map along with pull-based planning allows you to do away with traditional sprint planning. A triage process helps keep your story map up to date.

A story map organises work under milestones where work from more one or more epics is included. Keeping work arranged in an epic in order of importance from top to bottom makes planning easy.