This document summarizes a webinar on backlog management presented by Venkadesh Narayanan. The webinar discussed what a backlog is, how it is used to record, track, and prioritize remaining work items. It also explained what backlog management is and the planned approach to determine what items should be in the backlog, how to describe them, how to track them, how to prioritize them, how items are selected to be worked on, and how items are removed. The webinar covered the backlog cycle and common types of backlog items. It also discussed prioritization methods, strengths and limitations of backlog management.

1. BABOK v3 Demystified
Webinar Series
Chapter: Chennai IIBA Chapter
Date & Time: 28-April-16 | 6:30 to 7:30 PM IST
Topic: Backlog Management
Presenter: Venkadesh Narayanan
BSME, MBA, CBAP®, PMI-PBA®, CPRE-FL, CBPP®, CSCP

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BABOK v3
Foundation Chapters
• Introduction
• Business Analysis Key
Concepts
• Underlying Competencies
• Techniques
• Perspectives
Knowledge Areas
• Business Analysis
Planning and Monitoring
• Elicitation and
Collaboration
• Requirements Life Cycle
Management
• Strategy Analysis
• Requirements Analysis
and Design Definition
• Solution Evaluation
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What is Business Analysis?
• Business analysis is the practice of enabling change in an
enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions
that deliver value to stakeholders. Business analysis enables an
enterprise to articulate needs and the rationale for change, and to
design and describe solutions that can deliver value.
• Business analysis is performed on a variety of initiatives within an
enterprise. Initiatives may be strategic, tactical, or operational.
Business analysis may be performed within the boundaries of a
project or throughout enterprise evolution and continuous
improvement. It can be used to understand the current state, to
define the future state, and to determine the activities required to
move from the current to the future state.

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Change of State
Current
Need
Problem
Opportunities
Solution
Future
Addressed

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Documenting & Managing Requirements
Requirements Specification
Document
Conceptual Models
Product Backlog

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Ecosystem

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What is Backlog?
• The backlog is used to record, track, and prioritize remaining
work items.
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• Record
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• Track
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• Prioritize

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What is Backlog Management?
• Backlog Management refers to the planned approach to
determine:
• what work items should be formally included in the backlog,
• how to describe the work items,
• how the work items should be tracked,
• how the work items should be periodically reviewed and prioritized in
relation to all other items in the backlog,
• how the work items are eventually selected to be worked on, and
• how the work items are eventually removed from the backlog.

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Backlog Cycle

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Backlog Items
• Use Cases
• User Stories
• Functional requirements
• Non-functional
requirements
• Designs
• Customer orders
• Risk items
• Change requests
• Defects
• Planned rework
• Maintenance
• Conducting a
presentation, or
• Completing a document
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Prioritization Method

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Strengths
• An effective approach to responding to changing stakeholder
needs and priorities because the next work items selected from
the backlog are always aligned with current stakeholder priorities.
• Only items near the top of the backlog are elaborated and
estimated in detail; items near the bottom of the backlog reflect
lower priorities and receive less attention and effort.
• Can be an effective communication vehicle because
stakeholders can understand what items are about to be worked
on, what items are scheduled farther out, and which ones may
not be worked on for some time.

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Limitations
• Large backlogs may become cumbersome and difficult to
manage.
• It takes experience to be able to break down the work to be done
into enough detail for accurate estimation.
• A lack of detail in the items in the backlog can result in lost
information over time.

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About Fhyzics
Fhyzics, a leader in Business Analysis Services and Training, is an
Endorsed Education Provider [EEPTM] of International Institute of
Business Analysis [IIBA®], Canada.
www.fhyzics.com
www.bacourse.com
For more details about our course, please speak to Bharathi at
+91-900-305-9000

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Thank You
Webinar Platform
Compliments from
Fhyzics Business Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
Presented By
Mr. Venkadesh Narayanan, BSME, MBA, CBAP®, PMI-PBA®, CPRE-FL, CBPP® , CSCP
Principal Consultant
Former Indian Civil Servant [IRAS 2001 Batch]