Monthly Archives: June 2019

Intelligent Backlogs revisited (3) – release summaries

Intelligent Backlogs should be capable of providing release summaries based on average velocities and number of iterations remaining. These release summaries should be able to calculate how many story points can be completed as a high-level “best case” scenario and also use a lower velocity as a “worst case” that factors into account things such […]

Intelligent backlogs revisited (2) – triage

One problem I have with backlogs is when the item at the top is not the most important story!  In some tools it can be simply that the story at the top had just been created, this leads me to consider whether our intelligent backlog needs to have triage areas.  Triage areas would be for stories […]

Intelligent backlogs revisited (1)

Five years ago I wrote a post on “Intelligent Backlogs” (see Intelligent backlogs). Since then I’ve recently blogged about AI and Agile and Value/Waste/”Value Stream Mapping”. So I thought it would be interesting to revisit the idea of Intelligent Backlogs taking into account these aspects. Five years ago I described a key capability for an Intelligent […]