Managing Product Backlogs

This month we will take a look at product backlogs.

We will cover the following ground:

• Introduction (5 mins): Reg/Neil

• Backlog overview (10 mins): Reg/Neil

• Q & A/general discussion around the following topics (30 mins):

• What is a backlog?

• What goes into a backlog?

• Ordering vs Prioritising

• Sizing backlogs

• Readying backlogs for sprints

• Augmenting backlogs with techniques such as story maps, use cases and other things

• Queuing theory and how it underpins the backlog idea

• Dealing with multiple backlogs (scaled Scrum)

• Challenges we face when managing backlogs (e.g. absent customer, not paying attention to capacity, poorly formed backlog items, lack of acceptance criteria, not focusing on value and so on)

• Anything else backlog related

• Practical Group Activity: Creating and Managing a Product Backlog (40 mins)

• Wrap up (5 mins)

This session will run for a total of 1.5 hours from 6:00pm to 7:30pm.