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Scrum artifacts: The sprint backlog and increment

Scrum artifacts: The sprint backlog and increment

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Scrum artifacts: The sprint backlog and increment

- Now let's look at the other two scrum artifacts, the sprint backlog and the increment. The sprint backlog, which is a subset of product backlog items selected for the sprint plus the development team's plan. The plan typically is a set of tasks created by the development team to convert the sprint backlog items into a usable product. The development team continues to update the list of tasks throughout the sprint. The last and the most important artifact is the increment. It is the product itself. It is the current "done" version of the software with the functionality implemented so far. It has to support some business value and should be usable. Whether it gets deployed to the market immediately or not is the product owner's prerogative. But it must be polished enough to be potentially shipped. An implemented feature that provides end-to-end business functionality is called a vertically sliced portion of the system. The teams that do this job in the most optimal way are feature…

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