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The Rock Crusher offers an agile approach to backlog management, highlighting the power and simplicity of this essential tool in modern agile organizations. The publication emphasizes the importance of the backlog as a single repository from which a team pulls its next most valuable work item, enabling agility through the ability to add, remove, reprioritize, and visualize potential work for a product. With a focus on fostering efficiency and productivity, The Rock Crusher provides a practical guide to maximizing the potential of the backlog and ensuring success in agile development.

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"""Agile approaches are now accepted practice and while the fundamentals of the agile mindset remain the same, we have seen a constant evolution in how we write code, create stories, and scale our collaboration. In that time, while so many things have evolved, the humble backlog has continued to sit in the background, useful, but barely different from its original conception. This book provides an overdue evolution of the backlog, embracing its strengths and confronting its challenges to reimagine what how it can be used in the modern agile organization. If the Rock Crusher is a reimagined backlog though, it is also more than that. The Rock Crusher becomes a holistic set of approaches that enable the team to improve flow and value across the organization."" - James King, Agile Coach ""Finally someone has splashed a dose of reality onto the broken flat backlog metaphor! Lots of great concepts and tools here."" - Jeff Patton, Chief Troublemaker www.jpattonassociates.com ""Agile frameworks do a good job of telling teams they should refine their backlogs but never really explain why or how. Steve, Shane, and Ryland close that gap by explaining why you should refine your backlog, how to do it, and why you should take that approach. To help with the explanation, they use the metaphor of a rock crusher to bring the message home. If you've ever struggled with your backlog refinement efforts, The Rock Crusher is worth a read."" Kent J. McDonald"

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