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Heads up! This page uses features your browser doesn’t support. Try a modern browser like Firefox or Chrome for the best experience. CHAPTER 7: Next: The Betting Table Now that we’ve written a pitch, where does it go? It doesn’t go onto a backlog. Backlogs are a big weight we don’t need to carry. Dozens and eventually hundreds of tasks pile up that we all know we’ll never have time for. The growing pile gives us a feeling like we’re always behind even though we’re not. Just because somebody thought some idea was important a quarter ago doesn’t mean we need to keep looking at it again and again. Backlogs are big time wasters too. The time spent constantly reviewing, grooming and organizing old ideas prevents everyone from moving forward on the timely projects that really matter right now. So what do we do instead? Before each six-week cycle, we hold a betting table where stakeholders decide what to do in the next cycle. At the betting table, they look at pitches from the last six weeks

Bets, Not Backlogs | Shape Up sidebar#closeWithKey"> Heads up! This page uses features your browser doesn’t support. Try a modern browser like Firefox or Chrome for the best experience. sidebar#open" aria-label="Shape Up Table Of Contents"> Shape Up Chapter 7: Bets, Not Backlogs No backlogs A few potential bets Decentralized lists Important ideas come back Next: The Betting Table sidebar#close mouseup->tweet#update input->tweet#update keydown->tweet#update scroll@window->tweet#update" data-bookmark-id="/shapeup"> Now that we’ve written a pitch, where does it go? It doesn’t go onto a backlog. N

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