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Prioritizing and Estimating User Stories

Prioritizing helps the development team to focus on the most valuable features or functionality, while estimating provides an approximation of how long it will take to complete a given story. These activities are essential for effective product planning, resource allocation, and stakeholder communication. In this chapter, we will focus on prioritizing and estimating user stories, which are important activities in Agile software development.

We’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Understanding the importance of prioritizing and estimating user stories
  • Techniques for prioritizing user stories, including MoSCoW and value-based prioritization
  • Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)
  • Reach, Impact, Confidence, ...

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