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Prioritize your backlog
From the course: Cert Prep: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®
Prioritize your backlog
- What happens if you have a jar that's full of sand and you've been given some river rocks you need to add to the jar? Will they fit? What will you do? For many projects using traditional methodologies, there was always a full list of requirements to be delivered, a full jar. Additional requests were known as scope creep. How do we address Agile's second principle, welcome changing requirements? The answer is very simple. It's to prioritize your backlog. Agile relies on the principle of customer value prioritization. Sounds fancy, but really all it means is that what the customers value the most are the highest priority. So, as your requirements change, the product owner works with the stakeholders to organize the backlog continuously with the highest value items at the top of the list. In this way, as new requirements come in, less valuable items are pushed to the bottom of the backlog. Remember the jar I…
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