Why We Have Too Much Pressure and Planning & Too Little Delivery - Johanna Rothman

Why We Have Too Much Pressure and Planning & Too Little Delivery - Johanna Rothman

I work with many teams that have extensive product backlogs. Each iteration has a backlog of more items than the team can typically finish. Worse, some organizations want many quarters' worth of backlogs, as in the image in this post. There are several problems with long and extensive backlogs: They tend to be wishlists of features, not problems to solve. Worse, wishlists tend to be outputs, not customer-focused outcomes or intermediate steps t…