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Succeeding with Agile
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Succeeding with Agile

by Mike Cohn
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
15h 39m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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The Product Backlog Iceberg

Fortunately, it is easy to write a product backlog that contains features written with different levels of detail. The product backlog items that a team will work on soon must be known in sufficient detail that each can be programmed, tested, and integrated within a single sprint. This leads to the user stories at the top of the product backlog being small but reasonably well understood. User stories that are further down are larger and understood in less detail. These epic user stories are left large, often known only in enough detail that each can be estimated approximately and then prioritized. This leads the product backlog to take on the shape of an iceberg, as shown in Figure 13.1.

Figure 13.1 The product backlog ...

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