Product Goal (Scrum)
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It is the sole vision1 toward which the scrum team moves in every action it takes.
Similar to a gtd goal or gtd vision. It gives a picture towards which you want to move, while not being clear or small enough to be a project.
It is the only self supporting item of the product backlog. All the other product backlog item are meant to support this goal.2
It contains the future vision of the product3. All the members of the scrum team should be able to close their eyes and describe what this future product will look like. At least, the product owner is responsible for giving the other members of the team enough details for this to be possible4.
It is not to be confused with the sprint goal, that is a narro
Notes linking here
- only one product owner
- adaptation
- focus (scrum)
- Footnotes
- product owner as a task tree
- scrum artifacts
- scrum events
- scrum team
- sprint
- sprint goal
- sprint planning
- sprint review
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↩︎Product Goal is the long-term objective for the Scrum Team. They must fulfill (or abandon) one objective before taking on the next
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↩︎The Product Goal is in the Product Backlog. The rest of the Product Backlog emerges to define “what” will fulfill the Product Goal.
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↩︎The Product Goal describes a future state of the product which can serve as a target for the Scrum Team to plan against
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↩︎Product Owner is also accountable for […] Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal;