[almighty] Portfolio backlogs vs Product backlogs?

Pete Muir pmuir at redhat.com
Fri Nov 11 21:59:19 UTC 2016


For pizza, if someone wants to manage a portfolio, we would recommend they
use a project for the portfolio, and use areas to divide up the work.

On 10 Nov 2016 7:19 a.m., "Michael Kleinhenz" <kleinhenz at redhat.com> wrote:

> > My original understanding was that product backlogs are where work is
> > scoped, estimated and executed, and portfolio backlogs should just
> reflect
> > this in a rolled up manner. A portfolio WI is 'done', when the rolled up
> > stories in product backlogs are 'done'.
>
> I also thought exactly that until I talked to some POs at my old
> company in my last week there. I was talking to them about project
> management software in preparation for this job. They consistently
> told me that if the lower level stories in the product backlogs are
> done, this does not mean the portfolio "story" is done. There are
> different Definitions of Done in place on the different layers and
> there also may be additional tasks on the higher level, like "review
> and approve".
>
> -- Michael
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