The Product Leadership Podcast from Lighthouse London

#46: Weighting and Rating - How To Manage Your Backlog

Episode Summary

How do you determine what to prioritise in your backlog? Russ and Tom talk us through the weighting process.

Episode Notes

Prioritising the contents of your feature backlog is a vital part of determining your product roadmap. Tom and infrequent co-host Russ talk us through how to go about backlog weighting in order to work out what you should be building next.  They cover:

• Weighting by perceived value - Chatting to your users, stakeholders and frontline customer service team about what people are lacking, longing for or frustrated by.
• Weighting by analytics - Using Google Analytics etc to provide the least subjective picture of what's needed.
• Weighting by cost/resource - Working out  the effort needed by teams to get the feature completed.
• The tension between prioritising fixing bugs and building new things.

We also find out why sorting tasks alphabetically isn't a sensible framework!

Grab our backlog weighting template here (we've added some example features and scored them to get you started) 👉Google Sheets / Excel