Use a Sprint Backlog for Your Benefit

The Sprint Backlog: How it might help you!

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Prerequisites:

• It would be helpful to have some feel for agile and scrum, and a good place might be to look at my article about resolving conflicting priorities

Terminology

Scrum: A framework to support agile for software products

Sprint: A set period of time during which work must be completed and made avaliable for review

The environment

Agile

Agile suggests a set of guiding principles that uses an iterative approach for software development, and is guided by the Agile Manifesto.

Scrum

Scrum embodies the following values

• Respect
• Courage
• Focus
• Commitment
• Openness

and works in an iterative and incremental fashion towards a shared goal for the software team.

Why Backlog refinement is DEEP (video)