Domain 3 of 3

Managing Products with Agility

What a Scrum Master needs to know about the product side without owning it. The Product Goal, how a Product Backlog is ordered and refined, forecasting from past delivery rather than from estimates, working with stakeholders and what changes when one product needs more than one team.

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Concepts in this domain

01The Product GoalThe single objective the Scrum Team plans against, and why a team holding three goals is holding none.02Ordering the Product BacklogOrder expresses strategy, not preference, and being accountable for it is not the same as doing the work.03Product Backlog refinementThe ongoing activity of breaking down and further defining Product Backlog items into smaller, more precise items. It is not an event.04Forecasting and release planningScrum prescribes no forecasting technique. What it defines is that the Sprint Goal is the commitment, and that projections come from observation.05Stakeholders and collaborationHow stakeholders participate in Scrum, where their input enters, and where the Product Owner's decision stands.06Scaling ScrumMore teams on one product changes nothing about what a product is. One Product Owner, one Product Backlog, one Product Goal and one Increment survive the scaling, and dependencies become the work.

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A Product Owner on a search service has published three Product Goals, one for relevance, one for latency and one for a new admin console, and each Sprint Goal now reads as a summary of whatever was selected. What should the Scrum Master raise, and with whom?

AWith the Developers, who craft the Sprint Goal and could craft a sharper one.
BWith the Product Owner, since a Scrum Team holds one Product Goal at a time.
CWith the organisation, since three goals means the product needs more teams.
DWith nobody, since Scrum sets no limit on the number of Product Goals held.

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