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Mert Özen's blog posts on software development, backend, frontend, and DevOps.
From Discovery to Delivery: One-Pagers, PRDs and Turning Decisions into Backlog Items
A good one-pager or PRD answers two questions: why are we doing this, and how will we know we succeeded? We write the one-page document for Bookstore's cart abandonment work with problem, target outcome, success metric, non-goal, risk and open question sections, turn the decision into backlog items split into end-to-end slices, and cover the questions a developer should ask in a PRD review.
The Product Backlog and the Product Goal: What We Build and Why
The Product Backlog is the ordered, emergent list that is the single source of the Scrum Team's work; its commitment, the Product Goal, says why the list exists. The post shows how ordering weighs value, risk, dependencies and the cost of waiting, why refinement is not an event, and when a Definition of Ready, which is not in the Guide, becomes a gatekeeper, using Bookstore's GitHub Projects backlog.