Converting Product Concepts into Backlog Items
© 2012 William Patrick Swisher One of the more challenging aspects of Scrum for new Product Owners is the process of creating backlog items from product concepts. While the level of detail necessary is...
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In Scrum, the Product Owner creates and maintains the Product Backlog which represents business needs in the form of backlog items. These items can be at various stages of refinement, generally with...
View ArticleManaging Defects Found During a Sprint
Under the Waterfall software development methodology the typical lifecycle includes Design, Coding, Testing, and Deployment where the separate stages occur in sequence with some parallelization of work...
View ArticleFour Factors that Define a “Healthy” Product Backlog
I’ve been creating a product backlog for a new initiative recently and the exercise got me thinking about how you assess how good it is. After all, a product backlog isn’t a static set of requirements...
View ArticleHow a Product Owner is Like an Air Traffic Controller
I was watching a television show recently about Air Traffic Controllers and how their job has evolved over time. It was interesting to note that their job has been basically the same since the...
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