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Traceability is where I'd start. First, ensure your stories are being linked to your code / pull requests / issues. That way you can figure out why something was changed in the future. This is key to determining whether you can change something down the road. Stories directly traceable to code can be powerful for capturing knowledge.

I might also recommend creating user stories for non-feature development like infrastructure and tech debt paydown (if you don't already). That way, all of the value flow is captured in one place and you're not just leading managers to see new features only.

Second, in addition to the user stories I'd advocate for strong background information about the context of the story as well as detailed acceptance criteria if you don't have that in place already.




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