I recognize the temptation. “If I could only do this fastidious planning work a bit faster, I’d get home earlier…” Sure, it’s easy to see how AI would write User Stories faster… BUT: the real world is different: the whole point of product work is navigating uncertainty. We don’t know what’s valuable yet. That’s the …
There’s a widespread belief that the Product Owner handles writing user stories (partly true), and helps the team clarify requirements. That’s not right! At least, not the whole truth, not even the most important tasks for PO’s. There’s a much more important aspect of the PO role, that has nothing to do with User Stories, …
Estimation and estimates are a dreadful way to run a business. The basic idea is this: Estimates anchor benefits while not limiting your costs at all. Let’s look at this statement in parts. The second part (“estimates don’t limit costs”), is self-evident. Anyone looking at the track record of software projects will see the evidence. …
