🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Stop wasting time with backstory, the one thing PMs must do daily, shipping is just the beginning, who owns the context, and why you should test with...
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🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Stop wasting time with backstory, the one thing PMs must do daily, shipping is just the beginning, who owns the context, and why you should test with...
The way to avoid it is to aim for what Wes calls the minimum viable backstory . Ask yourself: What’s the minimum backstory necessary to set the context, so we can spend time on the important stuff?
As she says:
As she says:
You’ll have to fight your urge to over-explain. You may think your audience needs to know all the details upfront. They don’t. You’d be surp... See more
Jaryd Hermann • 🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Stop wasting time with backstory, the one thing PMs must do daily, shipping is just the beginning, who owns the context, and why you should test with...
Backstory = waffle. It’s the sidebars, tangents, preamble, and background info that’s hardly related to your main point.
Context = relevant info to what you want to talk about. It’s part if your actual story.