What is a Product Backlog and What is a Sprint Backlog?

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My dictionary tells me that a backlog is an accumulation of uncompleted work or matters needing to be dealt with. In this video, I want to answer the questions What is a Product Backlog, and What is a Sprint Backlog?
A Backlog is a list (usually structured by priority) of all of the user requirements. These are articulated in story format - see our video on What are Epics , User Stories, and Story Points? • What are Agile Epics, ...
Typically backlogs consist of features the team needs to create. But it can also include:
• Bugs to fix
• Changes to make
• Technical research to carry out
• Supporting assets or infrastructure to build
In Scrum…
At the start at each sprint, a Scrum team draws requirements to work on during the Sprint. This part of the Product Backlog is the Sprint Backlog.
The Sprint Backlog articulates the work that the Developers plan to accomplish during the Sprint.
In Kanban…
The team draws down requirements to work on continuously.
Maintaining a Product Backlog
This roadmap remains under review, as new requirements emerge and as priorities shift.
The Product Owners should review the backlog to ensure any feedback from the team is taken account of, and prioritization remains consistent with users’ needs. This regular review of the backlog is often called ‘backlog grooming’ or ‘backlog refinement’.
In Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has a series of backlogs of different scale, rather than a simple product backlog.
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00:00 - Backlogs
00:23 - Definition of Backlog
00:42 - Definition of Product Backlog
00:56 - Product Roadmap
01:13 - Ownership of the Product Backlog
02:01 - How Backlogs work in Scrum
02:14 - Sprint Backlog and Sprint Goal
03:24 - Backlogs in Kanban
03:56 - Backlogs in Scaled Agile framework, SAFe
04:53 - Maintaining a Product Backlog
06:04 - Definition of Ready
06:31 - Backlogs matter
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@Onlinepmcourses 2 жыл бұрын

A central approach to making agile projects work is the concept of the backlog. And it is one many traditional project managers are finding ways to adopt into their approach. In this video, I'll tell you more about Product and Sprint Backlogs.

@Onlinepmcourses 2 жыл бұрын

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@zideinp.segu-baghabo4242 9 ай бұрын

This is detailed, wonderful, and easy to understand all I have encountered about how the backlog works in project management. Thanks for making this easy and possible.

@Onlinepmcourses 9 ай бұрын

That's my pleasure - you're very welcome!

@hassanlearning4086 Жыл бұрын

You always make it so easy to understand the concept with clear examples. Thanks :)

@Onlinepmcourses Жыл бұрын

Thank you - you're very welcome.

@tarekpic Жыл бұрын

Amazing how you take your time to throughly explain step by step. It's so much clear to me now. THANK YOU SIR!

@Onlinepmcourses Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

@CesarPinedaCervantes 2 жыл бұрын

These concepts are so much clearer now. Thank you.

@Onlinepmcourses 2 жыл бұрын

That's great to hear, Cesar.

@itsmfactor Жыл бұрын

This was to the point. Thank you!

@Onlinepmcourses Жыл бұрын

My pleasure

@THEMATT222 2 ай бұрын

Noice 👍

@Onlinepmcourses 2 ай бұрын

Thanks

@Test94368 Жыл бұрын

👍

@Onlinepmcourses Жыл бұрын

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@KeremPARLAKGUMUS-uc4xb Ай бұрын

so kanban and Scrum is two different things, is that right?

@Onlinepmcourses Ай бұрын

Yes, they are different. Both are different approaches to managing something. Both have been adopted as project management approaches, but both come from industry: Kanan from manufacturing and Scrum from new product development. For more information from me: - What is Scrum Project Management? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ebydgcp-3cuUop8.html - Scrum 101 - The Fundamentals of the Agile Scrum Methodology kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pdCgh6eUydOUpoU.html - What is Kanban? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jZ6UftKDz6zahI0.html - What is Scrumban? A blend of Scrum and Kanban. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oc95Zqyoyt-llYU.html

@mback12000 7 күн бұрын

For the last 100 years, this was called a "to do list".

@Onlinepmcourses 7 күн бұрын

I agree with you... mostly. It depends on whether you view a To DO List as a list of things you will do (a Will Do List) or of things you could do (a Could Do List). I would argue that your To Do list should be a Could Do list and you then create a Will Do list each day, when you plan what you want to achieve. A Product Backlog is like a Could Do list and a Sprint Backlog is like a Will Do list.

@mback12000 7 күн бұрын

@Onlinepmcourses That's what you call a To Do list with an extra column or two. I think this first began with scratching cave walls. Just having some fun wirh you all in good spirit, and your video is good. My point is, orgs spend time thinking redefinition of simple trivial concepts is going to change their productivity while the issue holding them back is always people who can't write the to do list or management that can't understand the to do list. The problem is never how you wrote the to do list.

@Onlinepmcourses 7 күн бұрын

@@mback12000 Ha-ha. I like intelligent critique. Yes, orgs do spend time thinking redefinition of simple trivial concepts is going to change their productivity. But the concept of a backlog, while not new, gave project managers a new way to think about an old idea. Sometimes, gving something a new name earns it new (and deserved) respect and attention.

@AdolpheMuhire-vg1kl Ай бұрын

Nice work but better include writings in your presentation thanks

@Onlinepmcourses Ай бұрын

KZfaq is a video/visual medium. But the website versions of my videos carry text and video. For this one: onlinepmcourses.com/what-is-a-product-backlog-and-what-is-a-sprint-backlog-video/