Scrum Teams work on one product at a time. The Product Backlog represents all of the work that needs to be done on that single product. The complete list of Product Backlog Items represents the goal of delivering all of the presently known features of a product. Multiple teams working on a single product, therefore, work from a single, shared Product Backlog. Working on Product Backlog Items from multiple Products causes the team to task switch into a different business domain and possibly into a different technical domain. Task switching creates wasted mental effort and therefore causes a team to be less effective than they could otherwise be. Having a single product to work on creates focus in both the business and technical domains.
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