Selecting and delivering the most important work is a critical success factor in Agile projects. But how do you know what is important? Unless you are psychic, some help would come in handy. Get a guided tour to a variety of strategies and tools to manage your backlog. Understand the benefits of each approach using a model that puts them in context; learn how to make informed decisions on which to use in your situation. E.g. Innovation Games®, Story Map, Software By Numbers, Kano Analysis. Links in handout are available here: http://www.agilitrix.com/2010/07/biggest-bang-for-the-buck-managing-backlog/ [Agile 2010 presentation co-authored with Gino Marckx]

1. The biggest bang
for the buck!
Strategies to organize &
prioritize your backlog
Gino Marckx & Michael Sahota
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2. What problems do
you experience?
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5. Team Perspective
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7. User Story, Theme and Epic (Cohn)
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8. Story Map (Patton)
© 2006-2009 Jeff Patton
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9. Real Story Maps
© Jeff Patton, all rights reserved, www.AgileProductDesign.com
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10. Theme Scoring
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11. Software By Numbers
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12. Your job
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13. Exercise!
7 minutes
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14. 7 minutes
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15. Debrief
• 4 minutes
• How did you decide to organize your
backlog?
• How did you feel deciding about priority?
• What is different about how other teams
decided?
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16. Customer Perspective
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19. Innovation Games®: Speedboat
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20. Innovation Games®: Buy a Feature
Demo
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21. Exercise!
5 minutes
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22. 5 minutes
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23. Debrief
• 4 minutes
• How did you decide to organize your
backlog?
• How did you feel deciding about priority?
• What is different about how other teams
decided?
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24. Company Perspective
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26. Balancing Value, Constraints and
From http://theagileexecutive.com/2010/05/19/how-many-metrics-do-you-need-to-
effectively-govern-the-software-process/
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27. © 2010 Enthiosys
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28. Business Value Game
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29. Allocation Model
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31. Exercise!
5 minutes
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32. 5 minutes
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33. Debrief
• 4 minutes
• How did you decide to organize your
backlog?
• How did you feel deciding about priority?
• What is different about how other teams
decided?
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35. Thank You!
Michael Sahota Gino Marckx
michael.sahota@agilitrix.ca gino.marckx@thoughtcorp.com
Twitter: MichaelSahota Twitter: ginomarckx
www.agilitrix.com/blog blog.xodiac.ca
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