Kruchten Philippe. What colours is your backlog?

Philippe Kruchten, 2013. — 84 p.What colours is your backlog?
But what is in your backlog?
Painting your backlog
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Key message(s)
Having multiple repositories of things to do, managed by multiple or different people, based on different criteria is a bad idea.
It leads to delays, frustrations, accumulated technical debt, reduced velocity, distrust...
Manage all colours together
Value is different than costAgility
Lead to a shared mental model of the real state of the project
Common understanding of the nature and extent of commitments
Scale