Agile Stance Series Part 9 - Prioritization

This is part 9 of the series of post around Agile.

Prioritisation

With the knowledge that the Sprint Team has a good understanding of the User Stories and with the estimates that the Sprint Team provided, the Product Owner is now fully able to prioritise the Product Backlog in 1 to x order, meaning that no two User Stories will have the same priority.

The Product Owner is warned that any User Stories with the same priority will be left to the Sprint Team to prioritise.

The Product Owner starts by selecting two User Stories and prioritising one above the other. The Product Owner will then select another User Story and insert it above, below or in-between the existing User Stories. The Product Owner will continue to do this until all the User Stories have been prioritised