PM Insight Sunnyvale Virtual Meeting - Outcome Centric Backlog Creation and Management Techniques
PM Insight-Sunnyvale Virtual Meeting:
Outcome Centric Backlog Creation and Management Techniques
Your team has so much work to do; where do you start? This presentation will highlight several techniques that ensure your team can identify important work and refine it to readiness. You can then execute the work using your favorite technique (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
We will discuss one definition of Business Value which will lead us into the Impact Mapping technique. Impact Mapping helps us identify what needs to happen to generate business value. We will then move to backlog creation and management techniques whish are essential pre-work to delivering the solution.
Attendees should come to this session with a target business in mind, several sheets of paper for the exercises and one sheet of scratch paper.
Takeaways:
- A description of Business Value
- Impact Mapping technique
- Great backlog items and acceptance criteria
- Contents of the backlog
- Importance of backlog refinement and one workflow to ensure your backlog is immediately actionable.
About the Instructor:
William Davidson
William Davidson, known to many as Red, is a Freelance Agile Coach and the VP of Education for the Dallas Chapter of PMI. He's been writing software for money since 1983 (whoa, that's a long time). He's held many positions (Development Manager, Project/Program Manager, Scrum Master and PMO Lead), received awards (Business Development Quality Award for Excellence), written papers & articles, and presented at more than 100 conferences and user group meetings. As a freelance Agile Coach, Red has coached at large enterprises including CA Technologies, Frontier Communications, Citigroup, Toyota, and JP Morgan Chase. Red helps teams and their organizations achieve the benefits of Agile product delivery.
Meeting Leader: Kuntal Thakore, PMP, CSM
Online Registration
PMI Silicon Valley Members: $5.00
Non-Members: $5.00
Students & Veterans: Free (Please contact Meeting Leader for the discount code)
Cancellation Policy
This event is a professional society meeting, held for the benefit of its members. The Plan Ahead registration fee paid is based on the registrant's ability to commit to attendance, ahead of time. The Plan Ahead registration fee will not be refunded for any reason, other than event cancellation, after normal business hours (5:00 PM, Pacific) on the registration deadline day. The PMI - Silicon Valley Chapter reserves the right to make last-minute changes to program content and speakers, as circumstances dictate.
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