User stories, not requirements: why UX needs to be at Agile backlogs

Keeping user stories user-centric is simple but incredibly necessary

Kai Wong
UX Collective
Published in
6 min readJan 11, 2023

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People in a discussion board with post-its, laptops and more. A person is pointing and speaking and other people are looking and paying attention to him while another is by the board of post-its, ready to add to it.
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“Wait, are these user stories or requirements?” I said, as I looked over the workshop itinerary. People were flying in from all across the country for a Lean UX-style workshop to hash out all the product needs.

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