Managing Products with Agility [P2]: Managing Products with Agility / Product Backlog Management - Part 10 An Introductory Video Series to Scrum: Product Backlog & Product Goal

Question 1

Give some characteristics of the Product Backlog

Answer 1

• transparent + understood
• evolves
• order + size per item - sometimes not immediate
• PO orders item
• less understood items are lower down - need refinement
• refinement - ongoing
• PBI is ready if team is confident that a PBI can be turned into ready to done in one sprint
• Devs decide on sizing
• Sizing influences PO’s ordering
• Many techniques for sizing - select based on team
• single source of work to achieve product goal
• can have other things at the bottom of the PB but the focus should be on the product goal
  -if you are never going to do some work, don’t put it in the PB - not a repo

-PBIs - independent, purposeful and needed to meet the product goal

Question 2

Give some characteristics of the Product Goal

Answer 2

• PO defines product goal
• finish one product goal before moving onto another
• product goal - transparent what the team needs to focus on and what they are working towards long term
• product goal creates purpose, coherence and purpose for a scrum team and product