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The Sprint Backlog

#12. Co-hosts, Neil and Dermot (yes, he's back!), discuss the sprint backlog.

What is the sprint backlog and how does it relate to the product backlog?
Who is responsible for the sprint backlog and who can change it?
How the development team and the product owner negotiate the contents of the sprint backlog, with the help of the scrum master.
The effect of swapping items out of the sprint backlog.
How to handle capacity issues towards the end of the sprint when you’re ahead of or behind schedule.
Using a ‘Definition of Ready’ to ensure that stories selected for the sprint backlog can be developed into working features within the sprint.
Using velocity from recent sprints to forecast capacity for the upcoming sprint and how to adjust it for team members’ availability.
The types of product backlog items that can go into your sprint backlog, and whether it’s useful to use tasks to track progress during a sprint.
Should we separate out the business value delivered during the sprint from the velocity delivered during the sprint?
Using a physical Scrum board or a digital Scrum board, such as Visual Studio Team Services, and benefits and drawbacks of each, and the challenge of keeping them in sync if you decide to use both.
How to know when a product backlog item is complete at the end of the sprint, what to do if an item wasn’t finished, and why you should finish one item before starting another one.

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