What Activities Make Up Product Backlog Management?
Backlog Management involves creating, refining, and ordering the Product Backlog. Typical activities include formulating a Product Goal, deciding what to include or exclude, ordering, adding information, breaking down items, and sizing them.
Metaphor
Product Backlog Management is like editing a magazine—you pitch ideas, drop weak ones, polish drafts, split long articles into serials, and decide the order of stories. The shared trait is shaping raw ideas into a coherent narrative that readers can follow.
Similarly, backlog management organizes, refines, and prioritizes items into a precise flow toward the Product Goal.
Works Consulted
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Product Backlog Management [Internet]. scrum.org; [cited 2025 Sep 11]. Available from: https://www.scrum.org/learning-series/product-backlog-management/