What's Not This About

Tired of corporate blogs that sound like a broken record of buzzwords and success stories? Yeah, me too.

Welcome to The Corporate Backlog.

If you're expecting another blog about startup hustle culture, shiny product launches, or the dramatic rise of the next unicorn… well, that's not what this is about.

This isn't about overnight successes that magically skip the hard work. It’s not about visionary leaders who had an idea over coffee and disrupted an industry before it got cold. And it’s definitely not about those polished LinkedIn posts where everyone’s a thought leader with exactly 27 lessons from their “growth journey”.

So, what isn’t this about?

• It's not about agile buzzwords thrown around like confetti.
• It's not about glorifying endless meetings that could’ve been an email.
• It's not about pretending corporate life is a sleek, well-oiled machine.

Instead, this is about the real stuff:

• The messy, unfiltered world of corporate Product Ownership.
• The backlog items that don’t fit neatly into Jira.
• The decisions made in hallways, not boardrooms.
• The lessons learned not from success, but from the stuff that didn’t even make it past version 1.0 (or past a coffee chat).

And who's behind this? Just me - a so-called Product Owner (because that's what they call it; honestly, I’m still not sure what it really means). But after years of juggling shifting priorities, navigating endless meetings, and trying to explain to managers that "done" doesn’t mean "done-done", I’ve picked up a few things worth sharing. I'm the one who learned the hard way never to say, "this cannot be worse", because, trust me, it always can. I've been in the corporate maze long enough to know that the only thing more persistent than technical debt is managers believing that product development is just useless PowerPoints and Gantt charts magically turning into products.

Here, you'll find stories from the trenches - the frustrating, the funny, the “why-do-we-still-do-this” moments. No sugar-coating. Just honest reflections from someone navigating the corporate maze with a backlog longer than the company budget review.

So, if you’re here for real stories, corporate quirks, and lessons that don't come with a TED Talk…

You've landed in the right backlog.

• D. Scope