TBH this is what I've always assumed it should be from day one with Scrum, after training with Ken Schwaber etc. The backlog is not a Todo list. It's the only

TBH this is what I've always assumed it should be from day one with Scrum, after training with Ken Schwaber etc. The backlog is not a Todo list. It's the only way that seemed sane without twisting user stories into weird refactoring or architecture stories and keeping team from writing garbage code waiting for these "tech stories" to clean it up.