Technical Backlog Items and Bad Scrum

Technical Backlog Items and Bad Scrum

The relationship between the business people and the Scrum team doing product development is simple: business people decide what product to build and why, and the technical people decide how to build it and who does it.  Yet, in many organizations, I see techies insisting on putting lots of technical garbage on the Product Backlog.  This is unacceptable and is a huge reason many Scrum implementations are no better than traditional waterfall projects.  Here are two in-depth explorations of this idea.

First, a YouTube video:

 

Then, an in-depth Agile Advice article: Technical Push-Back - When is it Okay? When is it Bad?

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Meredith Beyer-Alldridge

VP, Customer Experience at Xello

9 年

As a product owner, what are the best ways to record technical debt and what are some approaches to prioritizing that work amid the continuous delivery of working software?

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