Back in Chapter 4, Gathering Agile User Requirements, we discussed an activity for very quickly putting together a Product Backlog by brainstorming a potential set of User Stories for our product.
The first step was to write down a simple sentence or stub on an index card—one idea per index card—so that we could create a broad picture of the product. We then started to flesh out the ideas, creating fully-formed User Stories with Acceptance Criteria and so on. We aimed to get as much of our product on paper (index cards) as possible, so that we didn't lose any of our ideas.
When we use this technique for creating a physical Product Backlog for the first time, we may notice a few things about it that make it very powerful. ...
