Case Study: SkillingUp at March of Dimes Canada writes stronger user stories 40% faster with Productboard Spark

SkillingUp at March of Dimes Canada writes user stories 40% faster with Productboard

SkillingUp at March of Dimes Canada, a digital skills training platform for people with disabilities, faced a significant challenge for its solo product manager, Jason Kothary. Without a team for peer review, he struggled to confidently turn ambiguous stakeholder ideas into well-scoped, development-ready user stories using generic AI tools. This fragmented process was inefficient and risky, often leading to inconsistent outputs and second-guessing whether a story truly solved a core user problem.

The solution was implementing Productboard Spark, a context-aware AI partner. Spark retained the platform's mission, user personas, and constraints, allowing Jason to pressure-test ideas and generate high-quality user story drafts. Using Productboard Spark, he achieved a 40% reduction in the time spent on user story creation and research planning, enabling him to move from an idea to a validated A/B test in hours instead of days with greater confidence.

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