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Project Management with AI

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Agile Project Management and SCRUM with AI

Learn to run Scrum and Agile with AI.

Backlog

A prioritized and continually updated list of product work items (features, fixes, enhancements, research, and technical work) that represents the single source of potential future work. Items at the top are most valuable and better refined, enabling the team to pull them into near-term plans.

Key Points

  • Owned and ordered by the product owner; transparent to the team and stakeholders.
  • Includes functional, nonfunctional, and technical items; each should have clear acceptance criteria when ready.
  • Continuously refined: split large items, clarify details, and adjust priority based on value, risk, and feedback.
  • Guides planning by providing ready, high-priority items, but is not a fixed commitment until work is selected.

Example

A product team building a mobile banking app maintains a backlog with items like "Enable biometric login," "Improve funds transfer speed," and "Address security vulnerability XYZ." The product owner orders these by value and risk. Before the next sprint, the team refines the top items and then pulls the most valuable, ready items into the sprint plan.

PMP Example Question

Which statement best describes the backlog in an agile product development effort?

  1. A fixed list of requirements approved in the project charter.
  2. An ordered, evolving queue of product work items maintained by the product owner.
  3. A daily task list created by the Scrum Master for the team.
  4. The set of tasks each developer plans to complete today.

Correct Answer: B — An ordered, evolving queue of product work items maintained by the product owner

Explanation: The backlog is a dynamic, prioritized list that guides what the team might build next; it is owned and ordered by the product owner, not fixed or managed as daily tasks.

AI Systems with Claude, for Scrum Masters and Project Managers

Most AI pilots in project management do not fail on the model. They fail because somebody pointed the thing at a decision instead of at a task. This course is built around that distinction, and around the work that follows once you get it right.

Seven sections, taught against one running project from the first lecture to the last. You watch a system get built, then you build the same one against your own sprint. Nothing here is a demo that works only on the example.

You finish with five working systems and you keep them. The sprint report machine turns your board export and standup notes into the report you currently write by hand. The retro intelligence system tells you what the team keeps saying, not just what it said this time. The stakeholder comms engine drafts the update in the register the audience expects. The backlog health monitor flags the quiet decay nobody has time to check for. The risk and dependency tracker follows the chains that actually bite.

Seventy-six working files ship with it, across four sections, so every system is built against real sprint data rather than material invented for a slide. Four sprints of retrospectives, board exports, standup notes, backlog and risk data.

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