Building and Maintaining Your Product Backlog w/ Adam Asch

Adam Asch and Dave Prior discuss how to build and refine a well formed product backlog. Adam also shares some techniques for determining which elements of the Product Backlog need to be prioritized to the top of the list and how much of those top priority items need to be worked on up front. Show Notes Podcast Intro 00:08 Topic Intro 01:00 Advice on getting started with building your backlog 1:36 Focusing on Epics and Themes 02:18 Where do User Stories fit in with Epics, Themes and Feature Sets? 03:54 What about things we need that don’t fit into the User Story Format? (non-functional stories) 05:19 I’ve got the list of stuff I want… what now? 7:58 Story mapping 9:10 Focusing on Strategy10:16 Define your desired outcome first, not what you want to build 11:48 Mapping and Prioritizing Features and Functionality for Impact 13:05 Capability Mapping 15:20 Understanding customer wants and mapping it back to strategy16:00 Product Owner means Customer Representative 17:50 Getting a deeper understanding the actual problem 19:00 Sacrificing innovation in order to get ALL THE THINGS 21:00 Can an organization do this alone, or do they need a coach? 21:55 How often you need to revisit the work you’ve done on the backlog 22:48 Developing the internal capability to do this without an external coach 24:42 How to get in touch with Adam 26:19 Contacting Adam Twitter: @adamasch Email: adam@Leadingagile.com Agile 2016 Video Podcast Interviews If you’d like to check out the Video Podcast interviews we shot at Agile 2016, you can find them at https://vimeo.com/leadingagile