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Home / Agile Approach / Section 04: Applied Frameworks

Use Cases

User stories, prioritisation, MVP scoping, and handling technical debt. These are the practical frameworks a PM applies sprint by sprint, and the ones most often skipped in Agile training.

Writing User Stories

Bad vs Good User Stories

Acceptance Criteria

Backlog Refinement

Prioritisation Frameworks

The PM orders the backlog, but ordering requires a method. Without a framework, backlog order reflects whoever spoke loudest in the last meeting, not user value or business impact.

RICE Scoring

Quantitative

Kano Model

User-centric

MoSCoW

Categorical

Value vs Effort Matrix

Visual

Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

MVP is a foundational Agile delivery concept that deserves a precise definition, because the most common interpretation is wrong.

What MVP is

What MVP is not

Technical Debt and the PM’s Role

Technical debt is not an engineering problem. It is a product problem. PMs who ignore it consistently under-prioritise engineering health and create long-term delivery problems.

What it is

Why it accumulates

PM negotiation

Agile at Scale: SAFe, LeSS, and Nexus

When a product has more than one squad, single-team Scrum is insufficient. Scaled frameworks coordinate multiple teams toward a shared product goal. PMs in any organisation beyond a small startup will encounter at least one of these.

SAFe

Scaled Agile Framework

LeSS

Large Scale Scrum

Nexus

Scrum at Scale