Backlog: what it is and what it means

The backlog is a non-sequential reservoir of ideas, future tasks and intentions that is not worked through in order: you draw from the backlog to fill the operational to-do list for the day or the week. The backlog is separate from the daily execution tool and works with no immediate deadline, on a longer decision horizon. Its job is to keep the to-do list from swelling with future items that don't belong to the current execution session.

Distinctive: non-sequential reservoir
Distinctive: draw from the backlog to fill the operational to-do list
Essential: no immediate deadline
Essential: separate from the daily execution tool
Constant: not worked through in order

Glossary

Backlog

A non-sequential reservoir of ideas, future tasks and intentions that you draw from to fill the operational to-do list. It is not worked through in order and has no immediate deadline.