A lot can be said about backlog items: are they use cases? Features? User stories? Requirement documents? As far as I’m concerned there is no true answer to this question. The most important thing is that the backlog item is approachable, limited, and achievable. This isn’t very different from any project framework you decide to use. But Scrum, and Scrumworks in particular, needs task. And this is the core of iterative agile planning.

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