The Premise
Your backlog is not a to-do list.
It is a mirror.
Backlogs reflect every dysfunction in your organization. Every political compromise, every unclear decision, every time someone said "yes" when they should have said "no."
More than two thirds of large-scale tech projects fail. In 2020 alone, unsuccessful software cost the U.S. $260 billion. The industry has spent decades pretending this is a process problem. It is not.
This book follows a composite fintech company with 83 engineers and a spiraling backlog. Four executives, four perspectives, one solution.
From Chapter 2
The Six Pain Points of
Backlogs
Six structural failures that turn a healthy backlog into a delivery bottleneck.
12 Chapters
What the Book
Covers
From diagnosing backlog dysfunction to implementing the POD model, each chapter builds toward predictable delivery.
From the Authors
Two perspectives.
Opposite sides of the same table.
One built the delivery model. The other lived inside the teams it was designed to fix.
