Comments on: How do you estimate the Business Value of User Stories? You don’t.

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Further reading 2011 | the fancy part of the web - tolleiv.de — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:02:46 +0000

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Story Smells: The Valueless Story | Joseph Wilk — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:01:36 +0000

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What is Business Value then? « Thinking for a Change — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:03:09 +0000

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By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:15:25 +0000

We were talking about your post, and I thought I might share my thoughts with you

A colleague of mine just gave his takeaway from a lean perspective :
“User Stories Business Value Estimation == waste + waste (inventory + overprocessing)”
to which I replied with a not so lean translation :
“What is the f_cking most important stuff that we wanna see running ?”

By the way, it’s the kind of question that’s being dealt with when
building a storymap and making explicit the goals of actors using the software.
Which still leaves one additional goal, for the people building it :
get rid of the blind spots and learn about the product being built (incrementally)

Thanks for the post

Thomas