Keeping every idea looks like diligence, but a backlog is not a warehouse of requests. Hundreds of old items that will never move up are not being cared for: they are being buried. They are a graveyard that hides the real order and demoralises whoever asked for each thing, because their request is lost among what no longer competes. A healthy backlog is shaped like a funnel, thin at the top and thick at the bottom, and it gets pruned. Ruthlessly archiving what no longer competes is part of the Product Owner's craft: saying no to the old is what lets what matters be seen, and attended to.
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