Yesterday, I was the guest speaker on the Global Product Management Talk hosted by Cindy Solomon. For yesterday’s show, Roger Cauvin was the co-host. We were discussing how to write […]
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Writing User Stories
Over the last few weeks, we’ve taken a look at several aspects of user story writing. As the primary means of kicking off conversations between product and engineering in most […]
Writing Acceptable Acceptance Criteria
You’ve written your user stories, engineers have accepted them, development is in progress. Now what? More often than not, odds are you left off one of the most important parts […]
The Art (Not Science) Of User Story Prioritization
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve looked at how to write good user stories, how to use themes to manage your backlog, and how to measure and predict the […]
Predicting The Impact Of Each User Story
On Tuesday, we looked at how to measure the impact of each user story, looking at both measuring the effectiveness of the mechanics of the feature and also the impact […]
Measuring The Impact Of Each User Story
On Thursday, I wrote about how to use themes to stay focused on your product goals. But using themes is not enough. You also need to identify how you are […]
Using Themes To Wrestle An Ever-Growing Backlog of User Stories
One of the biggest challenges with writing requirements as user stories is that with time your backlog can become an overgrown mess of assorted stories that seem to have no […]
User Stories Aren’t As Simple As They Seem
In April, I wrote User Stories Are Better Than PRDs. To date, it’s been one of my most popular posts. It covers the basic format of user stories: As a user […]