What are the three scrum artifacts?

- You may have heard Scrum teams talking about their artifacts, and may have wondered what they're talking about. Scrum is a project framework based on transparency and feedback. In service to those values, Scrum defines three artifacts that are open for anyone and everyone to review. The first artifact is the product backlog. This is simply an ordered, or prioritized, list of all the work that could be done for this product. It's managed by the PO and is the single source of work for the development team. As the work progresses, items in the backlog will be added, removed, reordered, and evolve on a continuous basis. Next, is the sprint backlog artifact. This artifact is a subset of the product backlog. As the team completes sprint planning, they'll have a list of the work items they've committed to completing in the sprint. This list, then, is the sprint backlog. Finally, the increment is the last Scrum artifact. An…