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INTROINTRO

This guide is designed for new product owners who want to quickly and effectively

create a backlog for their product.

At the end of this guide you will know how to:

Create quantifiable project goals and success measures (the what)

Create, Refine, and Prioritize user types for your product (the who)s

Define the major features of a product (the what)

Create user stories for your product (the what and the constraints)

When new teams and their product owners are first introduced to Agile,

it’s usually through the mechanics of the Scrum framework; stand ups,

sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint planning, and backlog refinement.

But what happens before then?

What happens when a stakeholder has an idea, or the business has a

problem or market opportunity they want to chase? How do you go from

a raw idea to a fully fleshed out product backlog?

Although this subject doesn't get nearly the attention it deserves,

backlog quality is the number one

predictor of agile teams’ success.

Chapter 1

Project Goals and Success Measures

At the highest level, you will need to understand

and quantify your project goals.

In Chapter 1, you will learn how to:

Understand and create a problem statement

Understand and create a goal

Understand and create success measures

Chapter 2

Users

Chapter 3

Features

Chapter 4

User Stories

Chapter 5

Sizing and Refinement

Creating persona's for your users can make the

job of creating features and stories much easier.

In Chapter 2, you will know how to:

Understand and create user types

Refine and Prioritize Users

Identify User Problems

The 3rd Chapter focuses on features and using

them to bridge gaps between a user's problem

and the ultimate solution.

At the end of this chapter you will know how to:

Understand Features

Create a list of features that will solve your

users’ problems

In Chapter 4 you will get into the details of creating

user stories.

At the end of this chapter you will know how to:

Create user stories from your features

Understand and create acceptance criteria for

your user stories

Organize your user stories according to features

This chapter focuses on sizing the backlog by

partnering with your development team.

At the end of this chapter you will know how to:

Work with developers to right-size user stories

Split stories

Combine stories

Drive conversations to get more details into user

stories

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5