with Shane Hastie.
Your Backlog is Broken – here’s how to fix it.
Agile software development introduced the backlog as a beautiful, powerful, and delightfully simple tool for managing variability and uncertainty in modern organizations. Unfortunately, the backlog can also be a major impediment to flow and break the value stream with substantial economic loss. This happens because our traditional model of backlog management presents the backlog as a stack of plates reservoir for the development team.
Agile grew up, and now so does our model of the backlog.
Based on the book “The Rock Crusher” this session introduces a flow-based model for backlog management.
We explore how some organisations are managing their backlogs well, yet others struggle, show how turbulence is necessary for innovation, introduce the waste gate as a way to help focus on doing the right work and show how using a rock crusher helps maximise the value generated for our customers and stakeholders.
Learning outcomes
- Identify the elements of the Rock Crusher for backlog management
- Explain the importance of the Waste Gate for effective backlog management
- Apply techniques to validate ideas at different levels of granularity and timeframes
- Describe why turbulence in the backlog is a source of value rather than disruption
- Have some fun together