From - https://www.digite.com/agile/story-ma...
Story Mapping or User Story Mapping is a technique used in product discovery: outlining a new product or a new feature for an existing product.
The result is a Story Map: all the user stories arranged in functional groups. This helps you keep your eye on the big picture while also providing all the details of the whole application.
The main purpose of Story Mapping is to facilitate product discovery and prioritization of development work. You achieve this by putting user activities and tasks on a map that serves to keep them in context.
The Story Map always shows how each individual story fits in the whole application. And this makes it easy to spot gaps and decide how important one is over another.