Backlog Accelerator
Backlog Accelerator is a structured working engagement that applies story writing and backlog practices directly to your real product backlog.
Teams leave with improved backlog items, clearer acceptance criteria, stronger alignment on scope and sequencing, and a defined backlog slice ready for Sprint Planning.
Performance Accelerator
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How it Works
Work Directly in Your Backlog
We run focused working sessions using your actual backlog, not generic examples.
Target What Matters Most
Each team participates in a structured three-hour session focused on a priority area based on current needs.
Produce Ready-to-Use Outputs
Every session delivers tangible backlog improvements that feed directly into refinement and Sprint Planning.
What We Do With Your Team
Each team participates in focused working sessions. Teams select one area of focus based on where improvement will have the greatest immediate impact:
Story Writing & Story Splitting Workshop
A focused session to improve the clarity, size, and delivery readiness of upcoming backlog items.
We improve selected backlog items, apply practical splitting techniques, strengthen acceptance criteria, reduce unnecessary scope while preserving value, and ensure work is sized for incremental delivery.
Outcome: Smaller, clearer backlog items, improved acceptance criteria, and greater confidence that selected work can be completed within a Sprint.
Story Mapping Workshop
A session to improve alignment and clarity around a meaningful product area before additional development effort is invested.
We define scope boundaries, map workflows and user interactions, identify logical groupings, break work into actionable backlog items, and surface assumptions and dependencies.
Outcome: Clearer scope, improved alignment, and a structured set of backlog items that can be refined and delivered incrementally.
Backlog Refinement Workshop
A session to increase the effectiveness and consistency of backlog refinement.
We clarify the purpose of refinement, review live backlog items, strengthen acceptance criteria, improve collaboration, and establish clearer signals for readiness.
Outcome: A more consistent approach to refinement, improved readiness of backlog items, and greater confidence entering Sprint Planning.
Backlog Prioritization Workshop
A session to strengthen how prioritization decisions are made and communicated.
We select or refine a prioritization framework, identify decision factors, apply the framework to current backlog work, and clarify tradeoffs.
Outcome: Clearer prioritization decisions and stronger stakeholder alignment on what comes next.
What You’ll Walk Away With
- Improved backlog items already written
- Clearer, more consistent acceptance criteria
- Stronger alignment on scope and sequencing
- A defined backlog slice ready for Sprint Planning
- Improved clarity in prioritization decisions
- More effective and consistent backlog refinement
- Greater shared understanding of story quality and readiness
The Result
The course builds capability.
Backlog Accelerator converts that capability into visible backlog improvement while the learning is still fresh.
Teams leave with clearer work, stronger alignment, and forward momentum.