Backlogs

Team Tasks

Team Tasks are activities and actions that a Working Team plans and carries out in order to achieve Team Goals . Team tasks are not part of the Team-Backlog, but part of the Team-Iteration Backlog and are usually created and planned in the Team Planning event. . Further suitable links: Events Roles Groups Artifacts Team…

Team Goals

Team Goals are the most used elements of the Team Backlog . They describe the goals and (interim) results of the team regarding a Feature, a Module or a Service , depending on the type and responsibility of the Team . Generally speaking, the Working Team turns Team Goals into Inspectable Results. Within an Iteration…

Backlog Item Types

“The Backlog is the only source of the work.” The general description of  Backlogs and their properties can be found here. The hierarchy of the Backlog structure describes (in a simple way) the product development process. Backlog entries or Backlog Items are the individual building blocks of backlogs. They are clearly ranked within the backlogs,…

Knowledge Gaps

Today, product developments very rarely start “on the green field”. Depending on the competence of the organization, certain things are already known and can be reused. The P4 framework describes all unknown things as “Knowledge Gaps”. The idea behind this is that product development can be considered complete once all knowledge gaps have been turned…