The Traceability Chain: From Interview to User Story Without a Broken Link
Most backlogs cannot answer the two questions that matter most: why does this item exist, and if the business need behind it changes, what do we have to rebuild? A traceability chain answers both.
Pick any story in a large product backlog and ask the team a simple question: why does this exist? In most organizations the honest answer is a shrug, or a name: "someone asked for it," "it came out of a workshop," "it's been in there since the last planning cycle." The provenance is gone. The item ...