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Overview
At Comalatech, we use Agile methodologies to increase our overall effectiveness and backlog prioritization is our main tactic to achieve it.
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The Product Owner, the person in charge of that prioritization, meets with different stakeholders across the organization, each of them with different needs and goals
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- Support Managers need bugs prioritized to help close tickets
- UX Gurus want their improvements to be resolved first so they can try out exciting new designs
- Managers have ideas for new features, which usually take precedence over everything else
A big part of the Product Owner's role is to keep a clean JIRA backlog, and to plan the upcoming sprints.
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This process is not easy. They must
- balance the demands of multiple team members
- get everyone to agree on which issue should take priority
- agree the issue that gets the most attention
Using the feedback they collected from these meetings, the Product Owner builds a backlog in JIRA with dozens of items with same priority (trivial, minor, major...) that have to be ranked before being included into the Sprint.
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Comala Agile Ranking represents a new way to rank your JIRA issues, based on the business value (i.e., importance) and opportunity/delay cost (urgency).
Use Comala Agile Ranking to
- rank your issues by type
- organize the needs of different stakeholders
- define priorities according to importance and urgency
Then use those rankings to effectively plan your next Sprint.
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The benefits of Comala Agile Ranking include
- Product Owners take full control of their backlog, ordering features based on their importance of delivery and urgency to be released
- better alignment of team tasks with customers' true priorities, increasing their satisfaction
- ranking bugs in triage meetings with your support team, getting to the heart of customers' needs
With a ranked backlog your Scrum team will discover truly Agile sprint planning, leaving no doubt as to what has to be included in your next sprint!
Ready to start ranking like a pro?
Check the Agile Ranking User's Guide.
Otherwise, if your backlog needs grooming or refinement, you can have a look at Comala Canvas for JIRA.