Overcoming Common Product Backlog Management Traps — David Pereira at the 54. Hands-on Agile
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How teams manage their Product Backlog often makes or breaks their value creation chances. Poor backlog management leads to a feature factory trap, while a mindful strategy enables the team to drive value steadily. Over the years, David has identified common traps teams often face and learned how to overcome them the hard way. Let David help you identify such challenges and help you overcome them, too.
Overcoming Common Product Backlog Management Traps — David Pereira at the 54. Hands-on Agile
- 1. David Pereira, 10th of October, 2023 Overcoming Common Backlog Traps
- 3. Company Marketing Customer Service Leadership Operations Product Team WHAT’S THE PROBLEM HERE?
- 4. The Backlog Trap transforms teams into feature factories
- 6. Keeping an extensive Product Backlog to tell stakeholders their requests are registered instead of removing items unrelated to your current goals #1 d-pereira.com
- 7. Gathering requirements from stakeholders to solve their wants instead of establishing relationships to deliver on end-users needs #2 d-pereira.com
- 8. Fear of removing outdated backlog items force you to work too much on the backlog and too little on creating value #3 d-pereira.com
- 9. When everything can go in, your backlog becomes no more than a 6-year-old wish list #4 d-pereira.com
- 10. Creating solutions without knowing the problems they aim to solve #5 d-pereira.com
- 11. d-pereira.com The longer the backlog, the less agile you can be Common Backlog Traps
- 12. d-pereira.com Extensive Backlog Once in, never out 6-year-old wish list Common Backlog Traps Solutions without problem understanding Focus on pleasing stakeholders over satisfying users
- 13. Mismanaged product backlogs transform Scrum into Waterscrumfall d-pereira.com
- 14. Overcoming the Backlog Traps
- 15. Cleaning your Product Backlog is essential to create value
- 16. Old promises New promises Nice to have Old New Lean Backlog No Yes Traditional Backlog Management Lean Backlog Management
- 17. Old promises New promises Nice to have Old New Lean Backlog No Yes Traditional Backlog Management Lean Backlog Management
- 18. Don’t increase the backlog size Increase the trash bin size
- 19. First you’ve got to clean your Product Backlog. Then, you’ve got to keep it shiny
- 20. Product Manager Requests Requests Requests Requests No Yes Saying no to distractions enable focus Every yes you give, you gain a new responsibility David Pereira
- 21. Product Manager Requests Requests Requests Requests No Yes Saying no to distractions enable focus Every yes you give, you gain a new responsibility Saying NO unlocks focus to deliver valuable solutions agileproductmanifesto.com David Pereira
- 22. January April July New requests, old items down, new items up New requests, old items down, new items up With an extensive backlog, everyone wants to run away David Pereira
- 23. January April July New learnings in Old items out New learnings in Old items out Inspect and adapt, remove distractions. Focus on goals; not plans David Pereira
- 25. Backlog Item Age Keep the Product Backlog clean. Backlog items age like milk, not like wine d-pereira.com
- 26. Encourage teams to step back, re#ect, and challenge the status quo
- 27. Product Backlog Health Check d-pereira.com Backlog items live forever Due Date Backlog items live no longer than 3 months A mixed of everything Goal Related Most of the items relate to a common goal Unstructured Organization Simple and easy to understand Focus on writing requirements Focus on learning Focus on adapting to learnings More than a hundred items Lean Backlog No more than a couple of dozens of items
- 28. You’ve got a choice to make: Bow to the status quo and get stuck Challenge the status quo and have a chance of a better tomorrow
- 30. Untrapping Product Teams Supercharging your product knowledge to rock the world Join 13K+ professionals to get weekly insights dpereira.substack.com David Pereira Simplifying Product Management contact@d-pereira.com d-pereira.com
- 31. Untrapping Product Teams Supercharging your product knowledge to rock the world Join 13K+ professionals to get weekly insights dpereira.substack.com David Pereira Simplifying Product Management contact@d-pereira.com d-pereira.com Upcoming Cohort How to Thrive as a Product Owner October 18th, 2023 Voucher 15%: UntrapProductTeams15