# Backlog

Concept · [Product](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/product)

Also called: product backlog, to-do list, tickets

The running list of new abilities, fixes and ideas waiting to be worked on, usually in order of priority.

**For example:** Your backlog holds 30 items. The team picks the top five to work on over the next two weeks.

## Connects to (10)

- [Roadmap](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/roadmap): A plan that shows what you intend to build and in roughly what order.
- [User story](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/user-story): One short sentence describing something a user needs to do and why, written from their point of view.
- [Bug](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/bug): A mistake in software that makes it behave in a way nobody intended.
- [Tulsa Agile Practitioners](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa-agile-practitioners): A Tulsa user group for people who practice Agile, a way of running software projects in short cycles.
- [Handoff artifact](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/handoff-artifact): The written document that carries a handoff, produced by one session for another to read.
- [Spec](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/spec): A written description of what is being built and why, for work too big to finish in one session.
- [Software factory](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/software-factory): A way of organizing work where events, not people, start agent sessions.
- [Product manager vs program manager](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/product-vs-program-manager): Both are called PM.
- [Notion](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/notion): A workspace app for notes, documents, wikis, task lists and simple databases, shared with a team.
- [Basecamp](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/basecamp): A project management and team communication tool made by 37signals.

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/backlog