What is Sprint Backlog? — UK Software Development Guide

4 min readJune 2025ClickMasters Technical TeamReviewed by James Whitmore, CTO
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A Sprint Backlog is the subset of items from the Product Backlog that the development team has committed to completing during a specific sprint, plus the plan for delivering them. The Sprint Backlog is owned by the development team (not the Product Owner) and is the team's self-organised plan for achieving the Sprint Goal.

Sprint-backlog in the UK

The Sprint Backlog is central to ClickMasters' fixed-price agile delivery model. Items in the Sprint Backlog have agreed acceptance criteria — these become the test cases for the Sprint Review demo. For UK fixed-price contracts, the Sprint Backlog makes progress visible and auditable: at any point in the project, both ClickMasters and the client can see exactly what has been completed (accepted by Product Owner in Sprint Review) vs what remains.

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