Domain 5 of 5

Working with the Product Backlog

The relationship between outcome and output, terms from product economics, value seen from several stakeholder groups, techniques for measuring value and building a product backlog that supports achieving a Product Goal.

Concepts

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Concepts in this domain

01Outcome and outputOutput is what the team produced. Outcome is what changed for someone because of it. A product owner is accountable for the second and is usually measured on the first.02Product Economics: Cost of Delay, Opportunity Cost, LTV and CACUse product economics to compare investments, calculate customer contribution and avoid misleading lifetime value or prioritisation claims.03Measuring valueValue is established by evidence rather than assertion, and the Increment is what makes it inspectable.04Ordering the Product BacklogOrder expresses strategy, not preference, and being accountable for it is not the same as doing the work.05Product Backlog refinementThe ongoing activity of breaking down and further defining Product Backlog items into smaller, more precise items. It is not an event.06Product Backlog itemsWhat an entry on the Product Backlog is, what Scrum requires of it, and how much of what teams do to items comes from practices outside the framework.07Estimating and sizingScrum asks that Product Backlog items carry a size, says who is responsible for it, and names no technique for arriving at one.08Releasing an IncrementWhen a Done Increment can reach users, why the Sprint Review is not a gate, and what a rare batched release does to the feedback loop.09Technical debtThe accumulated cost of past choices that makes changing a product slower, and the Product Owner decision about when to pay it down.

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A team reports that it delivered forty two items last quarter, up from thirty one. The product owner is asked whether the product improved. What is the accurate way to describe the relationship between these numbers and the answer?

AMore items delivered means more value, so the product improved.
BForty two items is output. Whether anything improved depends on what changed for users and for the organisation, and output and outcome are not proportional.
CThe comparison is invalid because item sizes differ between quarters.
DThe product improved if the items met the Definition of Done.

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