8 Different Ways to Organize your Product Backlog

Sick of Jira? Struggling to juggle everything? Lost in the vastness of your backlog? This video is for you! In the video I walk through 8 different Product Backlog Formats as well as several advanced Product Backlog Management techniques to help you create focus and drive better customer and business outcomes! Thanks and if you got value from this someone else will too, consider sharing it with a friend! LINKS MENTIONED: 📌 Original Post: https://www.antmurphy.me/newsletter/8-different-ways-to-organize-your-backlog-to-make-it-more-impactful 👩‍💻 Miro Template: https://miro.com/miroverse/8-different-ways-to-organize-your-backlog/ 🗺️ Product Roadmaps Webinar: https://youtu.be/XAnPLKp7YzM?si=APdi_yQIwlSoG1HU 🎯 Jeff Patton’s Passionate Product Leadership Course: https://jpattonassociates.com/services/ppl-online-course/ 📖 More on User Story Mapping from Jeff Patton: https://jpattonassociates.com/the-new-backlog/ 🌲 Opportunity Solution Tree by Teresa Torres: https://www.producttalk.org/2016/08/opportunity-solution-tree/ BACKLOG TOOLS: Easy Agile: https://www.easyagile.com Avion: https://www.avion.io Airforcus: https://airfocus.com Notion: https://bit.ly/3rtG0w9 Miro: http://miro.com Mural: https://www.mural.co Whiteboards io: https://whiteboards.io/backlog-management/ Linear (with auto archive feature): http://linear.app MORE PRODUCT PATHWAYS 🎁 As thanks for subscribing, here's $50 off Product Pathways courses. Use code PP50YT: https://www.productpathways.com/courses 🚀 Join the Product Mentorship to kick goals in 2025: https://www.productpathways.com/mentorship 🧰 20+ Free Resources & Templates: https://www.productpathways.com/resources 🗞️ Join 3,000 product leaders and founders who receive a deep dive every week on being a better leader and shipping great products: https://www.antmurphy.me/newsletter FOLLOW 🟦 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/productpathways/ ⚫️ X: https://x.com/productpathways TIMESTAMPS [00:00] Coming Up [00:15] Introduction [02:28] 8 Different Product Backlog Formats [04:07] 1) User Story Mapping [07:18] 2) Funnel Backlog [11:19] 3) Opportunity Backlog [13:12] 4) Classes of Work [16:39] BONUS Empowering your team through 'classes of work' [19:06] 5) Tree Backlog [21:08] 6) Impact Map [22:22] 7) Circle Backlog [25:39] 8) Conversion Funnel Backlog [28:24] 3 Techniques to keep your backlog small [30:35] Technique 1) Automatically archiving old backlog items [31:49] "The Boomerang technique" [33:57] Technique 2) Leveraging your Product Roadmap [36:54] Technique 3) Breaking down Outcomes first [42:00] Conclusion