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Product Owner

Explore the role of the Product Owner in Agile projects and learn techniques like T-shirt sizing for prioritizing requirements. Understand how to balance business value and development cost to make informed decisions that improve backlog refinement and delivery sequencing.

ABOUT THIS CHAPTER   One of the key emphases of Agile development is to sequence delivery of functionality from highest business priority to lowest. Highest-priority stories move toward the top of the backlog for additional refinement and implementation in the near-term sprints. Prioritization is also used decide which stories to implement and which stories not to.

Prioritizing requirements has always been useful, but for Agile projects requirements prioritization becomes a more prominent focus. A few really effective techniques have been developed to support this. But first let’s take a look at the role most ...