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Foolish to generalize backlog’s as a useless technique because the author has had bad working experience from them. As the author found, if you tune your backl
by mdmglr 4y ago
Foolish to generalize backlog’s as a useless technique because the author has had bad working experience from them.
As the author found, if you tune your backlog processes they can be quite helpful. The only part of agile I use today is the backlog. If you keep engineering details to a minimum (or limited until it reaches the top), items brief and to the point, and have it groomed regularly so it is always bounded to a size it works well.
I find that on multi year projects you can “archive” the bottom 20-50% of tasks and no one will care. So it cleans itself up quite nicely.
- JohnFen 4y agoTrue. Backlogs are one of several things that people think of as "agile", but have been around since forever. Although prior to agile, we called them "todo lists", but they were dealt with pretty much identically.
- ResearchCode 4y agoWe should call them todo lists again, to do away with the problematic capital-a agile association.
- theshrike79 4y agoI feel that too many people have only seen shitty scrum/agile and the whole terminology is tainted to a cargo-cult level.
- KyeRussell 4y agoAgile or Scrum?
- IshKebab 4y ago> archive As long as you don't do what a lot of open source projects do and use stalebot to lock old bugs with no ability to reopen them.