115: Creating Measurable User Stories

Managing Backlogs and Creating Measurable User Stories for Better Product Management and Engineering Leadership

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Unrelated: Hierarchical Backlog

Managing all this information often puts a lot of strain on product managers, who need more time to deal with day-to-day activities. When market opportunities change, business stakeholders face a severe dilemma.

Keeping the plan would deliver outdated or useless features or delay work on something more substantial. It's easy to hide scope creep and unnecessary work in a pile of several dozen items. The story card hell problem starts when a team only has one level of abstraction in their backlog - when the backlog becomes linear.