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Master the continuous activity of backlog grooming - learn how PMs triage, prioritize, refine, and maintain backlogs to ensure teams work efficiently on the right priorities.

Learn about the Backlog Grooming ceremony - a recurring Agile meeting where teams review, refine, and prioritize backlog items to ensure they're ready for upcoming sprints.

Learn how Agile teams dissect epics into actionable tasks, creating shared understanding and enabling proper prioritization for future sprints.

A product backlog is a dynamic, prioritized list of work items that an Agile team uses to guide product development. It serves as the single source of truth for all actionable tasks related to building, improving, and maintaining a product.

A product roadmap is a visual representation of product priorities over time. It transforms abstract planning into a clear view of what the team is currently building, is planning on building, and has already built.

A recurring ceremony used on Agile teams where the engineering manager, product manager, and development team prepare for and ultimately start the next sprint.

An unofficial but valuable ceremony where the product manager and engineering manager align on priorities and capacity before Sprint Planning with the broader team.

Learn how Agile teams estimate work through pointing poker, understand the goals and strategies behind task estimation, and discover best practices for effective team estimation.

Understand the 5 core Agile ceremonies that keep teams organized, aligned, and continuously improving through structured meetings and processes.

Learn about context switching - the act of moving from one task to another before completion, its impact on productivity, and strategies for managing it effectively.

Learn about escalation - the process of elevating urgent work items into the current sprint outside of normal planning, including evaluation criteria and best practices.

A recurring ceremony held after a sprint closes where development teams reflect on their way of working, celebrate successes, identify challenges, and create actionable plans for continuous improvement.

A fixed-duration period where Agile teams work toward completing an agreed upon set of tasks, creating natural rhythm with clear start and end points for regular delivery of value.

A recurring ceremony used on Agile teams where the development team briefly talks through what they have been working on, what they plan on working on, and anything that might be blocking progress.

Learn about timeboxing - a time management technique used on Agile teams to set specific, maximum time limits for activities to ensure focused work and efficient use of team time.

Learn about triage - a continuous activity where Product Managers review incoming tasks to ensure urgent work is acted on immediately and the product backlog stays clean and prioritized.

Learn about the North Star framework - a strategic approach that guides companies toward their ultimate vision of success with clear goals and measurable metrics.

Learn about OKRs - a framework that aligns organizations around ambitious goals and measurable outcomes. Understand how to set great OKRs, who should set them, and best practices for implementation.

Learn how to establish meaningful success metrics for features that prove value delivery, guide improvement decisions, and enable data-driven discussions about feature impact.