The Engineer’s Complete Guide to Backlog Grooming

You might be an organized checklist kinda person, or you might be hopelessly unorganized like the rest of us. It’s generally not such a big deal until you get overloaded with tasks and your team grows, making things even more confusing as you can’t decide each day what to prioritize.

Fortunately, there’s a way forward.

A Comprehensive Guide to Backlog Management and Everything It Contains in 2022

If you have been a part of the project management world for a while now, then you would know that a product backlog is a prioritized set of desired features and functionalities that consists of all of the important items that are critical to complete a product release.

This backlog contains many different elements like enhancements, bug fixes that the development team has to perform, new features that have to be introduced, and the technology upgrades that are needed in the current product.

A Forensic Product Backlog Analysis: Part 1

Garbage in, garbage out. No matter whether your team chose Scrum for the right purpose (solving complex, adaptive problems), whether your product quality is top-notch, or whether your teammates embrace self-management to the fullest... if your Product Backlog is not up to the job, all of these accomplishments will account for little, as your team will provide less value to its customers than possible. Here is where the forensic Product Backlog analysis steps in, a light-weight, simple practice to help Product Owners and Scrum Masters unearth anti-patterns that led to your low-value Product Backlog.

Learn more on how a piece of paper and a pencil can turn the perception of your Scrum Team around among stakeholders and customers.