backlog Archives

Why The Startup Sprint Delivers Immediate Business Value

By Dan Rawsthorne | August 10, 2017

Agile development is all about delivering valuable Results early and often, in order to receive and incorporate feedback as soon as possible. Many of the Organizations we coach are convinced that it will take months before they can write any code that produces business value. Is this a reasonable fear? How do we get past this fear?

9 Surefire Steps to Spring Clean Your Backlog

By Dan Rawsthorne | March 30, 2017

The closest thing we have to spring cleaning in Scrum, is Backlog Refinement. Scrum Backlog Refinement includes moving Stories into the Back Burner and further refining them until they are Ready to go to Planning. In order to do this there are some basic things that must be done…

5 Must-Haves For Great Story Writing

By 3Back | March 24, 2016

5 Must-Haves For Great Scrum Story Writing: You’re writing Scrum Stories where the purpose is to deliver a high-level definition of a requirement.

The Release Sprint: How To Get The Product Out The Door

By Dan Rawsthorne | September 10, 2015

Introducing the Release Sprint. A Sprint with the goal of releasing product is called a Release Sprint. A Release Sprint is different from other Sprints in a couple of ways…

Product Ownership is Hard

By Dan Rawsthorne | August 12, 2014

Scrum Master and Product Owner Relationship

Scrum’s Product Owner has had an interesting journey over the years. At first, the Product Owner was a person outside the Scrum Team who had big responsibilities: The Product Owner “is the person who is officially responsible for the project”

Product Owner Riddle

By Dan Rawsthorne | February 11, 2014 |

I posed the following Riddle to the Scrum Trainers, and got some interesting answers, so I thought I’d pose it to everybody, and see what you think. Based on the current Scrum Guide, which you can find here, the following ‘rules’ are all true: Every Scrum Team has a Product Owner, Each Product Backlog is…