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Product Goals in Scrum

Roman Pichler

Product Goals Defined. The Scrum Guide released in November 2020 states that “the product goal describes a future state of the product … [It] is the long-term objective for the Scrum team.” It also suggests that “the product goal is in the product backlog. Figure 1: The Product Goal in Context.

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Product Goals in Scrum

Roman Pichler

Product Goals Defined. The Scrum Guide released in November 2020 states that “the product goal describes a future state of the product … [It] is the long-term objective for the Scrum team.” It also suggests that “the product goal is in the product backlog. Figure 1: The Product Goal in Context.

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Agile Release Planning Best Practices For Product Managers

Userpilot

What is agile release planning? How can product managers leverage them to build successful products? TL;DR Agile release planning breaks the project scope into smaller chunks and prioritizes their delivery over a number of iterations. The next step involves reviewing the backlog to align it with the goals.

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Integrate Product Owners into Many Teams to Create Good Product Goals, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

Clarification of Tactics and Strategies On a program, I hope that the product owners all get together on a regular basis and discuss the various tactics to serve this product's strategy. Instead, I don't see a product value team. But that's not what I see in my consulting.

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How Product Goals Make it Easier to Create Sprint Goals and Reduce Feature Factories, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

Let me start with the idea of a sprint goal. Sprint Goals Clarify a Specific Piece of a Product Goal I don't happen to find sprint goals that useful, but some teams do. And since the Scrum Guide now demands a sprint goal, I guess you need a sprint goal to say you're doing Scrum.

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How to Reduce Planning Time to Create Better Goals at All Levels, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

In How Product Goals Make it Easier to Create Sprint Goals and Reduce Feature Factories, Part 1 , I started responding to Tom's interview question. Here's the question again: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion.

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My Product Strategy Model

Roman Pichler

The roadmap in figure 1 describes how the product strategy will be implemented in the next six to twelve months; it communicates the specific benefits the product will achieve; and it aligns and guides the stakeholders and development teams. You can simply copy the next product goal into the backlog together with its features.