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Product Backlog ItemA PBI is not necessarily a user story or a coding task. Scrum does not prescribe a universal ticket template. The Sprint Backlog includes selected Product Backlog items and the plan for delivering them; selecting an item is not the same as completing it.Describe the improvement and an observable result before splitting the work into tasks.

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