Excel templates for Scrum Product and Sprint Backlogs
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Here’s some useful templates for managing Scrum projects using Excel. Why use Excel? For simplicity. Sometimes great software and tools are necessary, sometimes they just over complicate the process.
“Individuals and interactions over processes and tools”
- Manifestio for Agile Software
“Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential.”
- Principles behind the Agile Manifesto
“Many time management techniques fail because they subject the people who use them to a higher level of added complexity with respect to the intrinsic complexity of the task at hand.”
- The Pomodoro Technique
Product Backlog
Download the Product Backlog Excel Template (incl. Release Burndown Chart)
Sprint Backlog
Download the Sprint Backlog Excel Template (incl. Sprint Burndown Chart)
