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28 Product Backlog and Refinement Anti-Patterns - by Stefan Wolpers. "Scrum is a practical framework to build products, provided you identified in advance what to build. But even after a successful product discovery phase, you may struggle to make the right thing in the right way if your product backlog is not up to the job. Garbage in, garbage out – as the saying goes. The following article points at 28 of the most common product backlog anti-patterns – including the product backlog refinement process – that limit your Scrum team’s success."
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Scrum Product Backlog – the Ultimate Simplistic Guide - by Luís Gonçalves. "While training some of my clients during the last few weeks, I have been continuously asked about scrum product backlog. To answer your ongoing questions, I have decided to research this topic more thoroughly and write this blog post."
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The Art of Maintaining a Backlog - by Code Runners. "What we’ve realized over a multitude of projects is that optimal backlog size depends on three main factors – the product type (SaaS/enterprise), maturity stage (startup/established/mature) and the target industry dynamics (volatile/stable/conservative). Of course, there are secondary factors – cash burn rate, monthly active users (MAU), release cycle specifics and number of stakeholders – but unless you are at an extreme with any of those, their influence would be insignificant. A well-managed backlog would contain work for three to seven months. The more enterprise-oriented and mature a product gets, the longer your backlog needs to be, especially if operating within a stable, rarely disrupted industry."
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The Backlog (aka Wishing Well) - by John Cutler. "[A] list of some backlog gotchas and challenges..."