How to Manage your Sprint Backlog

Published October 23rd, 2009 Under Project Management, Scrum | Leave a Comment

This video explains how to manage a sprint backlog. This is a prioritized list of tasks that a Scrum Team committed to realize during a sprint.

Prioritizing for Profit

Published August 25th, 2009 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

This talk will provide you with a proven process for how to prioritize a backlog for profit. It will debunk the mistaken theory that you can prioritize a backlog for ROI and provide concrete examples of how to structure backlogs and releases to ensure that while you’re providing business value to your customers, they’re equally motivated to recognize this business value and put more money back into your product. It will teach value exchange models (how your customers exchange money for value) and profit engines (how you make more money for providing more value) so that you can continue to practice Agile for a long time.

Prioritizing Your Product Backlog

Published September 16th, 2008 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

Choosing the right features can make the difference between the success and failure of a software product. Mike Cohn presented ‘Prioritizing your Project Backlog’ at Agile 2008 on how a project backlog should be organized and prioritized and non-financial techniques for prioritization such as kano analysis, theme screening/scoring, relative weighting and analytic hierarchy process.

Mike Cohn is the Author of ‘Agile Estimating and Planning’ and ‘User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development’, the founder of Mountain Goat Software — a process and project management consultancy with international training in agile methods and scrum — a blogger, and a founding member of the Agile Alliance.

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