UX Backlog Planning with Ben Newbolt

Translate UX findings and design priorities into actionable backlog items. This service helps integrate design into agile or product delivery cycles, ensuring consistent progress and shared ownership of experience improvements.

UX Backlog Planning

Use to convert UX insight into actionable work for agile teams — especially when managing a pipeline of research or iterative improvements.

When to Employ This Service

UX backlog planning ensures design work is scoped, prioritised, and integrated with delivery — enabling consistent user value across sprints.

  • Structured UX workstream within delivery teams

  • Better visibility of UX effort and value

  • Reduced design debt and ad hoc fixes

  • Higher confidence in roadmap delivery

Outcomes & Benefits

I help teams define, prioritise, and manage UX work within delivery frameworks. The result is a backlog that reflects user needs and integrates with delivery.

  • Discovery: Review research, journeys, and open issues

  • Structuring: Translate UX needs into backlog format (epics, stories)

  • Prioritisation: Apply frameworks like MoSCoW or RICE

  • Integration: Align with squads or programme delivery plans

Approach

UX Backlog Prioritisation with Ben Newbolt

Define

  • UX ticket creation and epic structure

  • Prioritisation frameworks (e.g. MoSCoW, RICE)

Deliver

  • Design-ready backlog in delivery tooling

  • Sprint alignment or roadmap overlays

Typical Deliverables