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Prioritizing Your Product Backlog

Posted by Mike Cohn on Sep 11, 2008 08:54 AM

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Agile
Topics
Agile Techniques ,
Delivering Value
Tags
Planning ,
Management ,
agile2008
Summary
Choosing the right features can make the difference between the success and failure of a software product. Mike Cohn presented 'Prioritizing your Project Backlog' at Agile 2008 on how a project backlog should be organized and prioritized and non-financial techniques for prioritization such as kano analysis, theme screening/scoring, relative weighting and analytic hierarchy process.

Bio
Mike Cohn is the Author of 'Agile Estimating and Planning' and 'User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development', the founder of Mountain Goat Software -- a process and project management consultancy with international training in agile methods and scrum -- a blogger, and a founding member of the Agile Alliance.

About the conference
Agile 2008 is an exciting international industry conference that presents the latest techniques, technologies, attitudes and first-hand experience, from both a management and development perspective, for successful Agile software development.

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hardcopy by Jesse Stockall Posted Oct 6, 2008 12:28 PM
Re: hardcopy by Ralph Poellath Posted Oct 7, 2008 9:27 AM
Re: hardcopy by Geoffrey Wiseman Posted Oct 8, 2008 12:04 PM
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    Oct 6, 2008 12:28 PM by Jesse Stockall

    Most of the links, including the PDF download are not functional

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    Oct 7, 2008 9:27 AM by Ralph Poellath

    The PDF of Mike's presentation can be found
    on his website.

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    Oct 8, 2008 12:04 PM by Geoffrey Wiseman

    Fixed.

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