## Why isn’t prioritizing high-value PBIs enough without a Product Goal? The Product Goal focuses the Product Backlog toward a single strategic milestone, ensuring effort isn't scattered across unrelated but potentially valuable work. This focus reduces waste, aligns backlog ordering with strategy, and gives the team a clear destination to measure progress against. Future ideas can be captured elsewhere, but the Product Backlog should reflect the path toward achieving the Product Goal. >[!metaphor] >Having a Product Goal is like dropping a pin on a map before you start traveling. It doesn’t dictate the exact path you’ll take, but it gives you a clear destination to measure progress against and lets you check if that destination is still the right one. Without that pin, you might wander in directions that seem interesting or valuable, but you’re less likely to get far from where you started. ## Works Consulted 1. [[Prompted to Learn]] Study Session | Explored 22 Jul. 2025 | Define the purpose of a Product Goal in Scrum. 2. [000267 Battling the Bloated Product Backlog](https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/battling-bloated-product-backlog) | Scrum.org | Accessed 25 Jul. 2025. ## Connections follows:: [[1.3 A Clear Product Goal Gives Direction to the Backlog]] topics:: [[Product Goal]], [[Customer Value]], [[Product Backlog]], [[Product Backlog Item]] ![[Footer]]