Plan with more clarity using the Coded Female Toolkit

Knowing the theory is useful. Having somewhere to start when you need to apply it makes a difference.

You might understand what a product backlog is but still feel unsure about writing your first item. Perhaps you’re preparing for sprint planning and want to bring more structure to the conversation. Or you’ve been asked to measure a product improvement and need to work out what success would actually look like.

I’ve put together the Coded Female Toolkit to help you take that next step.

It includes three practical resources for product and delivery work. Each contains a short guide, a completed example and a blank template you can use yourself.

Download the complete Coded Female Toolkit (PDF)

What’s inside the toolkit?

Product Backlog Starter

A useful backlog item helps people understand the problem, the intended benefit and what still needs discussing.

This resource guides you through describing a user’s need, recording evidence and assumptions, writing acceptance criteria and considering where an item belongs in the backlog. It also helps you connect the work to the wider Product Goal.

The completed example shows how a learning website might explore a feature that lets readers save a guide for later.

Use it when you’re writing your first backlog item, refining an unclear request or preparing for a conversation with your team.

Download the Product Backlog Starter (PDF)

Sprint Planning Checklist

Sprint planning brings the team together to agree a goal and a plan for working towards it.

This checklist covers preparation, the planning conversation and the decisions to capture before finishing. It includes prompts about availability, dependencies, quality and uncertainties, alongside an explanation of the Scrum responsibilities involved.

The example follows a team improving workshop registration.

Use it to prepare for planning or to check that the team leaves with a shared understanding of the work.

Download the Sprint Planning Checklist (PDF)

Product Metrics Planner

Before collecting numbers, it helps to know what decision they will inform.

This planner helps you connect a user outcome to a clearly defined measure. It covers the baseline, target, measurement period and a guardrail: an additional measure that helps reveal unwanted effects.

The example explores registration completion, including how to calculate the rate and interpret the result carefully.

Use it before starting an improvement or when reviewing whether an existing metric tells you something useful.

Download the Product Metrics Planner (PDF)

How to get started

Choose the resource that fits something you’re working on now.

You don’t need a perfect answer for every field. Recording an unanswered question can help you identify the next conversation or decision.

The examples are fictional, and the metrics targets are illustrative. Adapt the templates to your product and team.

A practical next step in tech

My background spans web development, Scrum and product ownership. Across those roles, my focus is helping teams ship work that matters, with less chaos and without burning out the people doing it.

That same focus shapes Coded Female.

Whether you’re exploring a new role or building confidence in your current one, this toolkit gives you a starting point for putting your knowledge into practice.

Download the complete Coded Female Toolkit (PDF)