Managing the Product Backlog Flashcards
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A stakeholder demands a feature be built first, but the Product Owner disagrees. Who decides the ordering?
Answer: The Product Owner
For the Product Owner to succeed, the whole organization must respect their decisions on backlog ordering.
How should items be ordered in the Product Backlog?
Answer: In a way that best achieves goals and maximizes value
Ordering reflects value, risk, dependencies, and the path to the Product Goal.
What does it mean for a Product Backlog item to be 'ready'?
Answer: It is refined enough to be selected in Sprint Planning
Items deemed ready can reasonably be 'Done' within one Sprint by the Developers.
Who does the work of Product Backlog refinement?
Answer: The Scrum Team, with the Product Owner and Developers collaborating
The Developers who will do the work are responsible for the sizing, with the Product Owner influencing trade-offs.
Estimates for Product Backlog items are provided by whom?
Answer: The Developers
The people who will perform the work, the Developers, are responsible for sizing.
What happens to the Product Backlog as the product is used and the market changes?
Answer: It continuously evolves to identify what makes the product useful
The backlog changes constantly to reflect new learning and a competitive environment.
How does the Product Goal relate to individual Product Backlog items?
Answer: Backlog items elaborate what fulfills the Product Goal
The Product Backlog defines the work needed to progress toward the Product Goal.