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Product Ownership

8 Different Ways to Organize Your Backlog

A miro board with 8 organization strategies along with variations and explanations.

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Anthony Murphy
May 11, 2022 • 8 min read
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Summary

Would you like to learn some of the different ways of organizing a product backlog and their effectiveness? There are several techniques for building a backlog, for starters, you can use the '' User story map" method or the '''Funnel backlog'' technique but the former is best when building your backlog for the first time while the latter comes in handy restricting the number of product items at the top. So which of these 8 different ways would you prefer as the product manager in a bid to satisfy your customer's needs?

Takeaways

  • A funnel backlog is a great way to visualize your backlog and physically restrict the number of product items that are at the top.
  • Impact Map backlog help create several alternate solutions for a single problem.
  • Tree backlog is a great way to visually show how different features inter-relate and how certain functionality can start out simple and incrementally be enhanced.
  • User Story Maps are a great way to quickly build out your backlog for the first time, it’s also a powerful tool for release planning.
  • As a product coach, this is a really useful tool to help those I work with, to think about different ways they can organise their backlog, that suits them and their model. Thanks for sharing.

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