A backlog needs to be carefully administered to avoid becoming bloated. It’s not easy maintaining a lean backlog but the benefits of doing so are numerous. Learn how design in process DIP limits, separate opportunity backlogs, managed queues, and reduced batch sizes can keep your product backlog lean. Presented by Lucina Stricko and Dan Corbin.

1. Keeping Your Backlog Lean
Agile Austin - Product SIG
July 15, 2014

2. Sponsored by:

3. Special Thanks to:
Tracy Whitehill Mark Spitzer

4. Introducing Your Speakers

5. Dan Corbin
API Product Manager,
Context.IO
(a Return Path company)

6. Lucina Stricko
Product Manager,
Key Ingredient
(a Groupe SEB company)

7. How Many Stories are
in Your Backlog?

8. Consequences of a Fat Backlog

9. How did THAT Happen?

10. Product Owner vs. Bloated Backlog

11. You Shall Not Pass!

12. Setting Limits

13. Limit Design in Process
(DIP)

14. Monitor Cycles with
Cumulative Flow

15. https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/GHS-10359

16. Cut the Clutter

17. Use Multiple Backlogs

18. Discovery over Roadmap

19. Don’t Start Unless you can Complete

20. Build Measure Learn

21. Declaring Bankruptcy

22. Be courageous!

23. Recommended Reading

24. What are some other ways to
keep a lean backlog?
Thank you for joining us!

25. Contact Us
dan.corbin [at] gmail.com
lucina.stricko [at] gmail.com