# Scratch the Backlog - There is a better way to plan your work

DevFeed: [Scratch the Backlog - There is a better way to plan your work](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/scratch-the-backlog-there-is-a-better-way-to-plan-your-work-39938.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://mende.io/blog/scratch-the-backlog/>)

Author: tobi@techunicorn.builders (Tobias Mende)

Published: 2022-06-25T13:22:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Tobias Mende](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tobias-mende.md>)

Topics: [Developer experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-experience.md>), [GitLab](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gitlab.md>)

Tags: [collaboration-culture-practices-engineering-excellence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collaboration-culture-practices-engineering-excellence.md>), [developer-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-experience.md>), [gitlab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gitlab.md>), [plan](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/plan.md>), [team](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/team.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that growing backlogs become unmanageable collections of outdated, duplicated, and abandoned work. Drawing on the experience of a developer experience team at BRYTER, it describes replacing a large backlog with topic clustering so the team could focus together on similar, more significant work.

## Source excerpt

Scratch the Backlog - There is a better way to plan your work Every approach of making work visible has some kind of "Open Column", "Backlog" or something similar with a more fancy name. This thing tends to fill up over time, while more and more ideas and tasks get added. Eventually, this container turns into a graveyard for ideas, hopes, and promises.