Best Practice
Here are some best practices that you may use as a product owner, Scrum master, or team member to increase your productivity and put your group on the road to success. These practices are researched and chosen based on their importance of them in the Scrum development process.
- Organize the product backlog with the help of the stakeholders.
The stakeholders must be included in order to provide feedback while building the product backlog and may successfully contribute to the creation of the product vision. The team and stakeholders may better comprehend the vision and what is anticipated to be delivered during discussions on the backlog and when re-prioritizing activities.
- Maintain control over the Product Backlog.
We frequently notice product owners make the error of having much too long product backlogs. A Product Backlog of 650 items is normally considered to be unmanageable, thus this may have been an exception. You will need to decide as a Product Owner! You must choose what to avoid doing. Your goal is to minimize production while maximizing results. The product owner may need to decline some requests from clients.
- Ask for help.
Many Product Owners desire to handle every aspect of Product Backlog management themselves since it is their responsibility to do so. This is not always a negative thing. You may, however, request assistance from your Development Team in controlling the Product Backlog. Because they can assist you with the work.
- Continuously reorganize the Product Backlog
A living artifact is the Product Backlog. It is a dynamic entity that changes, expands, and contracts over time. As a result, you must constantly change the Product Backlog. Make sure you maintain the Product Backlog up-to-date because the ordering may change from week to week. Make the Product Backlog transparent for all stakeholders and the Scrum Team as a Product Owner.
- There should not be a finished Product Backlog.
When starting a new project, many starting product owners fall into the trap of wanting to generate a comprehensive product backlog, especially if they come from more conventional or project-oriented contexts. However, project delivery is not the primary objective of Scrum and Product Ownership. They have a product-centered focus. Since product development is an ongoing process as long as the product is in use, the list of needs, wants, and other considerations will continue to expand and contract over time. Therefore, avoid attempting to make a "full" Product Backlog.
- Utilize approaches for task prioritization.
The product backlog may be prioritized using task prioritization approaches such as MoSCoW, Business value approach, Kano model, Walking skeleton, and others. During the Grooming process, you should prioritize the tasks. Choose a method that everyone can comprehend and that makes the most sense for your team.
- Create user stories by putting IDs on them.
By giving each user story an ID, you can eliminate any uncertainty and ensure that everyone on the team is talking about the same thing. Team members may wrongly believe that the same story is being addressed when two user stories sound similar but are actually different.
- Create a mapping of functional and technical relationships.
Dependencies may be functional (as defined by stakeholders) or technical in (as defined by the engineering team). The workflow is simplified and optimized, bottlenecks may be found and eliminated, and the workflow is improved by mapping both types of dependencies throughout the story mapping process.
Prioritize the process steps In order to ensure that the organizing of the product backlog is successful, you need to prioritize the methods used in the process.
1. Create a user story
2. Story mapping
3. Build a roadmap
4. Refinement backlog session
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