Continuous backlog refinement mha 2017

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Painful backlog refinement meeting? Come learn why it shouldn’t be a meeting and what to do instead. Over the last 6 years, I’ve developed and tuned an approach with my clients for continuous backlog refinement. In this session, I’ll show how to structure the product backlog to have just the right level of detail at the right time, which makes it clear where the PO needs to emerge additional detail each day. I’ll explain when and how to have key conversations about what goes on the backlog, how to slice it, how big backlog items are, etc.

CONTINUOUS BACKLOG REFINEMENT
Richard Lawrence
@rslawrence
As you come in, discuss the following with others around you,
making notes on the ﬂip chart page on your table:
• What do you like about your current backlog reﬁnement
approach?
• What about backlog reﬁnement seems harder than it ought to?

BACKLOG REFINEMENT MEETING
YOU PROBABLY NEED A
LIKE YOU NEED A
PROGRAMMING MEETING
@rslawrence

Creating stories
Improving the language of stories
Raising questions about behaviors, assumptions, scenarios
Fleshing out details
Splitting stories
Identifying technical issues
Identifying dependencies
Estimating stories
THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN A BACKLOG REFINEMENT MEETING:

STRUCTURE
YOUR BACKLOG TO
WHEN YOU NEED DETAIL
TELL YOU
@rslawrence

With your table group, discuss and note what the PO
does in each column, starting from the right side.

RIGHT PEOPLETALK TO THE
AT THE RIGHT TIME
@rslawrence

CREATE A STAKEHOLDER MAP
Every day
Every sprint
Every month
Every quarter
Put names in the
appropriate circle

KEY COORDINATION POINT
THE
WITH THE TEAM IS THE
DAILY SCRUM
@rslawrence
How can we collaborate
to get the most important
work done today?

Richard Lawrence
@rslawrence
FOR MORE RESOURCES, VISIT
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