Your project backlog is mostly fiction — here is how to clean it

It is a scenario every product manager knows: a backlog containing hundreds of stale, half-defined tasks that will never be scheduled. Managing this pile of cards is a massive waste of operational bandwidth.

To fix it, establish a strict pruning rule: if a card has sat in the backlog for more than 45 days without a sprint allocation, auto-archive it. Use Wrike's custom priority filters to isolate the 1% of critical path tasks that actually drive product milestones.