
Scrum Mythbusters: The Product Backlog is maintained exclusively by the Product Owner
08/03/19 • 10 min
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Is your Product Owner the only person who can make changes to the Product Backlog? Is your Development Team asking your Product Owner to write and order items on the Product Backlog? Is the Product Owner the only person with write-access to a Product Backlog in a digital tool like Jira?
In this episode, we tackle the myth in Scrum that the Product Backlog is maintained exclusively by the Product Owner.
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The music for episodes 91 and onward was written and produced for us by Basanite. The music for episodes 1-90 was acquired through Yummy Sounds. Post-production by Jasper Huiskamp.
Is your Product Owner the only person who can make changes to the Product Backlog? Is your Development Team asking your Product Owner to write and order items on the Product Backlog? Is the Product Owner the only person with write-access to a Product Backlog in a digital tool like Jira?
In this episode, we tackle the myth in Scrum that the Product Backlog is maintained exclusively by the Product Owner.
We love to share our materials. Please help us by supporting our work. You can do so by giving us a thumbs-up on the platform you're listening on. Or follow us on Twitter, Medium or LinkedIn (Barry & Christiaan).
This podcast is an audio recording of this blogpost on Medium:
http://bit.ly/2I9zaol
Follow us on Medium:
https://medium.com/the-liberators
Or check out upcoming events, workshops and (Scrum.org) classes at:
https://theliberators.com/events
Donate to support our work
https://bit.ly/supportheliberators
We're building Columinity to help teams improve continuously based on scientific insights:
https://columinity.com
Check out our webshop for tons of powerful exercises and workshops to run with your team(s):
https://shop.theliberators.com
The music for episodes 91 and onward was written and produced for us by Basanite. The music for episodes 1-90 was acquired through Yummy Sounds. Post-production by Jasper Huiskamp.
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The music for episodes 91 and onward was written and produced for us by Basanite. The music for episodes 1-90 was acquired through Yummy Sounds. Post-production by Jasper Huiskamp.
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We love to share our materials. Please help us by supporting our work. You can do so by giving us a thumbs-up on the platform you're listening on. Or follow us on Twitter, Medium or LinkedIn (Barry & Christiaan).
This podcast is an audio recording of this post on Medium:
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Follow us on Medium:
https://medium.com/the-liberators
Or check out our upcoming events at:
https://theliberators.com/events
Donate to support our work
https://bit.ly/supportheliberators
We're building Columinity to help teams improve continuously based on scientific insights:
https://columinity.com
Check out our webshop for tons of powerful exercises and workshops to run with your team(s):
https://shop.theliberators.com
The music for episodes 91 and onward was written and produced for us by Basanite. The music for episodes 1-90 was acquired through Yummy Sounds. Post-production by Jasper Huiskamp.
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