The dangerous game of product backlog Tetris

Sometimes you shouldn’t play as a Tetris world champion would.

Andrew Quan
UX Collective
Published in
10 min readNov 24, 2020

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Illustration of a laptop with Tetris tiles falling right to left, on a laptop, with each piece representing a backlog item
The dangerous game of product backlog Tetris — Illustration by Andrew Quan

The product backlog is a list of the features, fixes, infrastructure changes or other activities that a team may deliver to achieve a specific outcome. It is known to be the single authoritative source for things that a team works on.

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