Backlogs – the good the bad and the ugly
summary
Argues that backlogs work when goals are decomposed into smaller business goals so teams deliver end-to-end slices of value rather than technology tasks, uses the Everest and café examples to show iterative experiments, recommends vertical slices of end-to-end value and story mapping to prioritize by customer usage, warns against functional decomposition and huge backlogs (prune items older than ~6 months), explains two NFR classes and prescribes global NFRs in definition of done while you split by user type/persona for early usable releases.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Start
- 2:28Using Goals To Improve Backlogs
- 5:04Using Goals and Decomposing Goals
- 7:16Quick Wins
- 8:24Decompose Your Goals
- 11:09How Do We Create Value Stories
- 11:23Gold Decomposition
- 13:12Work Breakdown Structure
- 14:35Functional Decomposition
- 16:39How'D You Split Stories
- 16:58Invest Criteria
- 19:01Alastair Coburn
- 29:43How To Be Agile with the Backlog of 53 , 000 Requirements
- 31:23Scenarios
- 32:09Jeff Patton Story Mapping
- 33:14Managing the Backlog
- 37:29It's Not Everyone Puts in All this Energy for the 12 Months of the Project and Then the Project Finishes and They Forget that It's Really Live On but Probably another 20 Years It's Got To Be Maintained It's Got To Be Supported Which Costs More the Projects or the Maintaining of the System for the 20 30 Years Non-Functional'he's Actually Help Us Think about those Things They'Re Really Really Important Then They Need To Be Thought about this Isn't Something You Can Just Evolve as You Go along You Know You'Re Going To Get to the Point Where You'Re Going To Deliver some Functionality in Oh Damn Gdp Our Think about that You Sort Of Need To Know that and Build that In as You Go and You Need To Be Thinking about It but Where'D You Put Them Cuz
- 38:52It Says Work Items Things That You Know the Team Needs To Work On To Maximize Value It Doesn't Dictate What that Format Is It Doesn't Say Write Them as User Stories in Fact if You Look into a Little Bit More It Says in There that You Should Find Necessary Documentation To Ensure that It's Complete We'Re Not Complete but You'Ve Got all of those Things Cover if You Have To Write It in an Excel Document Write It in an Excel Document It Doesn't Dictate the Format and Well I Think Is a Good Idea Is for Global Nfs To Be Placed Somewhere on a Board and Just Highlight It like Gdp Are Something like Things That You Know that Our Actual Constraints Somewhere Else They Should Be Documented so You'Re GonNa Have Them Fully Documented with All the Rules Around There That You'Ll Need To Pull Out at some Time some Point in Time
- 39:19And Well I Think Is a Good Idea Is for Global Nfs To Be Placed Somewhere on a Board and Just Highlight It like Gdp Are Something like Things That You Know that Our Actual Constraints Somewhere Else They Should Be Documented so You'Re GonNa Have Them Fully Documented with All the Rules Around There That You'Ll Need To Pull Out at some Time some Point in Time and You May End Up Adding some of those So Definition of Done so They Will Constrain the What You'Re Doing Oh Ten Minutes Five Okay I'M Nearly Done so that Will Constrain It's a Definition of Done and that's that's Quite Good As Well because When You'Re Doing Your Iterations
- 41:58You'Re Not Done Now that Might Seem like You of Course It's Not but this Is What Happens People Think because They'Ve Broken the Story into Tasks and All the Tasks Are Done and They'Re all Tested Then Therefore all of the Tasks Can Move into Done and the Value Is Obtained no You Still Have To Test the Acceptance Criteria of the Value of the Story so My Last Slide I Timed this Really Well I'M Quite Impressed My Last Slide Then Good Understanding Captured Global Nfr that Front I Know There's a Big Thing about Don't Do What Front Requirements but some of Them Need To Be Done on the Front That's Okay
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