Questions tagged [backlog]
Backlog is ever-evolving list of product requirements, prioritized by the customer (or customer representative), that conveys to an Agile team which features to implement first.
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In Scrum, why don't you use aging and guaranteed time slice to prevent outdated tasks in the backlog?
If there are many tasks in the backlog and the product owner keeps adding them, some of the tasks become outdated and in practice they are never implemented by the team. Why don't we borrow some ...
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How to catch "continuous ongoing tasks" into a scrum system?
Well in working with scrum it's always seen as important to make clearly defined stop and start points of small tasks. However how do you capture "ongoing" tasks into a scrum system? Like on friday ...
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Whom does the Nexus Sprint Backlog belong to?
The Nexus Guide states that: A Nexus Sprint Backlog is the composite of Product Backlog items from the Sprint Backlogs of the individual Scrum Teams. However, trying to build an analogy between the ...
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How to organize work for a team delivering 3 connected but distinct products and stay agile
We are a team responsible for 3 products: 2 products are in active development of new functionality and are moving fast therefore work there could be classified as project 3rd product is alive and ...
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Should we estimate tasks during backlog grooming?
I was just taken by surprise in a backlog grooming meeting when we assigned time estimates to BA, dev, and QA tasks...but the story is not yet scheduled in any sprint and we are not yet assigning ...
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Criteria for prioritizing product backlog [closed]
My list of the most important criteria is below. What do you think? The value to the user - naturally features that are more important to the user must come first Implementation time - the faster it ...
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Scrum - real life example? [closed]
I'm starting with scrum and saw many partial examples on books and tutorials, but when try to use scrum in the real life, it's not easy to write the user stories and create the product backlog. I want ...
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best practices in creating a product backlog in scrum [closed]
I am new to scrum, project management in general, and i am having problems deciding what to call a feature or a sub-feature (which are tasklists to creating that feature?) especially for the standard ...
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