Product backlog is one of the key concepts of agile software development. It is an organized, prioritized collection of users stories. An agile team can pull/select stories from the backlog and work on them in the next iteration/sprint.
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A backlog of “bite-size” tasks in parallel to the “main” feature backlog?
After over two years of working in a highly siloed, "lone-wolf" development department structure, we're adopting Agile SCRUM. Great. I like Agile; as a dev it keeps you focused, busy, and productive ...
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What electronic user-story-mapping tools can you recommend? [closed]
Agile software development relies heavily on a work item type called user stories. For example, you have a backlog full of user stories and you can select a few of them to work on during the next ...
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In Scrum, should you split up the backlog in a functional backlog and a technical backlog or not?
In our Scrum teams we use a backlog, which mostly contains functional topics, but also sometimes contains technical topics. The advantage of having 1 backlog is that it becomes easy to choose the ...
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Multi-project multi-team Scrum
2 teams (A and B) in different geo locations are developing Project P.
Both of the teams are also developing few other smaller projects: A has projects PA1 and PA2. B has PB1 and PB2. P is the only ...
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PBI vs User Story
Recently an item has been added to the Product Backlog by product owner which says "When I go to login page from x page, I see an error. I want that error to be removed".
It seems to me that this is ...
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Scrum tool for Product Backlog management [closed]
My team and I are very keen on doing Scrum "manual"-style (with paper and scissors). Though, we are struggling to find a tool to manage our backlog.
The main requirements are:
To be able to print ...
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Confused about modifying the sprint backlog during a sprint
I've been reading a lot about scrum lately, and I've found what seem to me to be conflicting information about whether or not it's ok to change the sprint backlog during a sprint. The Wikipedia ...
