The Product owner of your Scrum team tends to add ideas of all kind to the backlog to continue working on them at a later stage. Over time, this has led to over 200 tickets in various stages. What is your take on that: Can the Scrum team work on 200 tickets?
First thing I shall do is to have a chat with the Product owner to check his understanding of Product Backlog management. This includes whether he is aware of prioritization techniques, and managing the content and order of the Product Backlog. I also check with him/her whether he is using “No” word to stakeholders whenever any new requirement is added that does not have any value. Then I shall ask the Product Owner to do a Product Backlog Refinement to get team’s estimates for the top important items and accordingly facilitate the Sprint Planning. If the Product Owner has to provide tentative timelines to the stakeholders for the prioritised tickets, then I shall help Product Owner to facilitate a release planning.
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