By Christopher Zara September 14, 2022 Our long national nightmare may not be over yet for millions of Americans who are still waiting for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to process their tax returns, but at least help is on the way. That’s the newest message from Erin Collins, the national taxpayer advocate, who … Continue reading IRS paper backlog and horrendous phone service are top priorities with new funding, TAS says
Here’s the next step on your Agile Marketing Navigator journey: How to create a transparent, shared backlog of relevant and impactful work. Stacey Ackerman on June 30, 2022 We recently introduced you to Agile Marketing Navigator, a flexible framework for navigating agile marketing for marketers, by marketers in the article A new way to navigate … Continue reading Getting started with the Agile Marketing Navigator: Building a Marketing Backlog
How to keep your agile marketing backlog healthy, built around bite-sized slices of value which can be achieved in a sprint. Stacey Ackerman on October 15, 2021 While agile marketing is more about culture and people than processes and tools, sometimes you just need a really good workflow to get into the rhythm of agile. … Continue reading 6 key elements of a great agile marketing backlog
Stefan Wolpers February 9, 2021 TL; DR: Product Owner Anti-Patterns from Job Ads Garbage in, garbage out: No matter whether your team chose Scrum for the right purpose—solving complex, adaptive problems. No matter whether your Scrum Team’s product quality is top-notch or whether your teammates embrace self-management to the fullest. If your Product Backlog is … Continue reading Fixing Your Scrum: A Forensic Product Backlog Analysis (Part 1)
Louis-Philippe Carignan — March 8, 2020 The emergence of the Kanban Guide for Scrum teams has given new metrics and practices to development teams on how they can augment their sprint backlog to manage their work. As these benefits are more and more integrated within development teams, there is another backlog in the Scrum Guide … Continue reading Product Backlog Workflow
Sumeet Madan — February 28, 2020 When we talk about Scrum for complex Product Development, it starts from Vision and Product Backlog. What is the Product Backlog in Scrum? As per the Scrum Guide — “The Product Backlog is an ordered list of everything that is known to be needed in the product. It is … Continue reading Product Backlog – Visible or Raises Transparency?
Joshua Partogi — October 17, 2019 Hello awesome people. It’s me again with a new learning from within a Scrum team. The development team I was working with around 3 months ago challenged the Product Owner about the User Story she brought into the Sprint Planning. As a Scrum Master facilitating the Sprint Planning, I … Continue reading How to Write the Product Backlog Item as Hypothesis
Matthijs de Booij — August 7, 2019 Follow @agileteamswork — August 7, 2019 A very common pattern I see among Product Owners is that dependencies heavily influence the order of their Product Backlog. Think for example about other teams that need to do something before you can continue (or vice versa). Or availability of vendors … Continue reading Are Dependencies Dictating Your Product Backlog?
Stefan Wolpers — June 29, 2019 Follow @StefanW — June 29, 2019 TL; DR: Ideas on How to Improve Your Product Backlog Management Techniques Scrum is a simple, yet sufficient framework to build emerging products, provided you identify in advance what is worth building. But even after a successful product discovery phase, you may struggle … Continue reading Ideas on How to Improve Your Product Backlog Management Techniques
Stefan Wolpers — June 26, 2019 Follow @StefanW — June 26, 2019 TL; DR: 28 Product Backlog Anti-Patterns Scrum is a simple, yet sufficient framework to build emerging products, provided you identify in advance what is worth building. But even after a successful product discovery phase, you may struggle to make the right thing in … Continue reading 28 Product Backlog Anti-Patterns
