Agile Anti-Patterns: Backlog Anti-Patterns Part I

David Theil
14 min readAug 21, 2022

Content

  • What is a Backlog?
  1. Epic User Stories
  2. Technical User Stories
  3. UseCase Stories
  4. Prioritization by Stakeholders
  5. Backlog Waterfall Planning
  6. Upfront Detailed Estimation
  7. Big-Backlog
  8. Obsolete User Stories
  9. Component Backlog Items

INFO: This article is part of the series on agile anti-patterns.
Here is the entire series.

Agile Anti-Pattern Series:
- General Agile Anti-Patterns
Scrum Anti-Patterns
- Daily Scrum/ Daily Standup Anti-Patterns
- Sprint Anti-Patterns Part I
- Sprint Anti-Patterns Part II
- Sprint Anti-Patterns Part III
- Backlog Anti-Patterns Part I
- Backlog-Anti-Patterns Part II
- Refinement-Anti-Patterns
- Sprint Review Anti Patterns Part I
- Sprint Review Anti Patterns Part II
- Sprint Review Anti Patterns Part III
- Retrospective Anti Patterns Part I
- Retrospective Anti Patterns Part II
- Retrospective Anti Patterns Part III
- Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns Part I
- Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns Part II
- Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns Part III
- Role Anti-Patterns Part I
- Role Anti-Patterns Part II
- Role Anti-Patterns Part III
- Role

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