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Prioritizing Your Product Backlog

Presented by Mike Cohn on Sep 11, 2008 Length 01:14:45
Sections
Process & Practices,
Architecture & Design
Topics
Delivering Value ,
Agile Techniques ,
Agile
Tags
agile2008 ,
Management ,
Planning
 

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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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