From the course: Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories

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- Now that you know how to write a story, let's look at how a story gets implemented. Like many things, stories move through a lifecycle. The first part of that lifecycle is when a story is ready to implement. The first step is to identify stories. Most stories are identified early in the project's timeline. Once most of the stories for our scope of work have been identified, the next step is to size them. Sizing the complexity and level of effort is essential for prioritization and planning. Once the team has assigned a size value, the product owner can use that and other inputs, such as business value, risk, dependencies, et cetera, to make an initial path at prioritizing the backlog of stories. Prioritization provides flexibility and decisions on what to do next. Lower-priority stories can wait to have more investment made in them as we get validated learning on those we're implementing first. At some point, most stories become a high priority, ordered towards the top of the…

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