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

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