Biggest bang for the buck! Strategies to organize & prioritize your backlog

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Selecting and delivering the most important work is a critical success factor in Agile projects. But how do you know what is important? Unless you are psychic, some help would come in handy. Get a guided tour to a variety of strategies and tools to manage your backlog. Understand the benefits of each approach using a model that puts them in context; learn how to make informed decisions on which to use in your situation. E.g. Innovation Games®, Story Map, Software By Numbers, Kano Analysis. Links in handout are available here: http://www.agilitrix.com/2010/07/biggest-bang-for-the-buck-managing-backlog/ [Agile 2010 presentation co-authored with Gino Marckx]

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The biggest bang
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Strategies to organize &
prioritize your backlog

Gino Marckx & Michael Sahota

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Real Story Maps

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Debrief
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• How did you decide to organize your
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• How did you feel deciding about priority?
• What is different about how other teams
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Balancing Value, Constraints and

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Thank You!

Michael Sahota Gino Marckx
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Twitter: MichaelSahota Twitter: ginomarckx
www.agilitrix.com/blog blog.xodiac.ca

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