From the course: Agile Product Owner Role: Techniques

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Prioritization overview

Prioritization overview

From the course: Agile Product Owner Role: Techniques

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Prioritization overview

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- The product owner has a critical role in prioritizing the backlog. It's about taking all of the features and items submitted and under consideration, and finding their place in the backlog. When using a funnel-shaped backlog, this is a much easier task than a stacked backlog. With a funnel-shaped backlog, we use the product vision, road map, and release plan as inputs, and then we are able to take any item and find its place according to where it fits in. Using this approach helps us focus on value over things that can get in the way, like the loudest stakeholder, and organizational politics, or first in first out, as well as our own projections of what matters. It's not technical preferences, efficiencies, costs, or difficulty, but rather, what items will provide value and are aligned to the bigger goals? Typically as a team starts off, the product owner's priorities are in chunks, far too big for the team to work on. This results in features that cannot be completed within a…

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