Environments that practice Agile in Name Only often decompose fixed notions of a thing to built into smaller 'user stories', that may not actually be user stories as originally intended - ie A User Story is a placeholder for a conversation . This format consider user stories as Futures in the financial sense, items which we have an obligation to exercise. However, Future work is an option with no guarantee that it will be started.
As Future work is an option and User Stories Are Options, Not Futures - how can the prime properties of options, namely their window of opportunity (Options expire), their value (Options have value) be applied to ordering a backlog?
User Stories Are Options, Not Futures because there is no guarantee that work on the backlog will ever get prioritized.
User Stories Are Options, Not Futures