Tag Archives: waste

The Product Backlog Refinement Steps

| April 2, 2012

Refining the product backlog helps you make the right product decisions by integrating new insights into the backlog, and it helps you get the product backlog ready for the next sprint. In this post, I show how you can get from having collected user feedback to a ready, workable product backlog in five simple steps.

The Lean Product Backlog – Eliminate Waste

| July 9, 2010

Many product backlogs are too long, detailed and complex. This is in stark contrast to what the product backlog should be: a simple artefact listing the outstanding work to bring the product to life. This blog post discusses lean techniques to make the backlog concise and focussed by eliminating waste.