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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 impact of user stories. Today, we'll take a high-level look at how to prioritize user stories.

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 of the story on our overall product goals. Today, we'll look at how to predict the impact of

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 going to predict and measure the impact of each user story. Let's return to our previous example and

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 rhyme or reason. When writing a PRD, it's easy to keep the whole product in mind. After all,

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 role, I'm able to do some functionality, for some explicit benefit. It looks at each

So You Want To Be A Product Manager

Overwhelmingly, the top product-related question I see on Quora, LinkedIn, and Twitter is how do you become a product manager. Product managers come from all walks of life. There is no single path to your first product role. Seeing this question so often led me to write quite a few

The Most Common Mistakes People Make In Product Manager Interviews

This post is part of the So You Want To Be a Product Manager series. There are a ton of great articles about what you might get asked in a product manager interview. I refer you here, here, and here. I've also written about what I always ask