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Discover how abandoning traditional backlogs transformed our startup's product development process. This session reveals how conventional backlogs can actually handicap product teams—creating psychological burden, diffusing focus, and accumulating "someday" tasks that rarely deliver customer value.
Ditch Your Backlog and Start Building What Matters
Drawing from years of implementation in a startup environment, we'll show how replacing these counterproductive task lists with focused work cycles dramatically improved our ability to concentrate on what truly matters now. Product managers and startup teams will learn how liberating themselves from backlog tyranny can create a more intentional development culture that responds better to market realities. We'll share our journey of prioritizing present needs over maintaining an ever-growing list of features — offering perspectives for both early-stage startups and established product teams seeking to balance structure with flexibility.
Glenn F. Henriksen is a mentor and developer from Norway. As the co-founder and CTO of Justify, he gets to build new legal tools for everyone to use, helping to create better communication and less conflict in relationships. He's continuously exploring new tools, processes and technologies, and improving how he and his fellow developers work with code, tasks and projects. He has been a Microsoft Development MVP, a part of the Microsoft Regional Director program and is an ASP.NET Insider and an Azure Advisor. In the past 25+ years he has co-owned two companies, worked as a consultant, manager, support tech, network admin, developer, architect, technical lead and more, but his favourite things are still swapping code for food and building stuff that makes a difference in people’s lives.