The document discusses the importance of refinement meetings for product backlog grooming, emphasizing that they should take 5-10% of the sprint. Key actions include splitting larger items, rewriting for clarity, and deleting obsolete items to facilitate effective sprint planning. Tips for user stories are provided, focusing on their value to end users and the use of a prioritization matrix to aid in decision-making during the sprint.

1. Refinement
Meeting to discuss product backlog items
Favara Vincenzo

2. About me
Refinement
Backlog grooming is the pre-planning
and it should take 5 or 10% of the sprint
Prioritise backlog assigning user value
score (useful for Matrix)
It is not a formal ceremony of the Scrum
process.
Groomed Scrum backlog helps to
streamline sprint planning meetings to
avoid stretching them for hours

3. Refinement standard Actions
What should I do on grooming meeting?
Splitting big items into smaller ones
Rewriting backlog items to be more expressive
Deleting obsolete or no more need items
Successful grooming leads to the effective sprint planning
Saving time for the devs for further discussion during sprint
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4. How can it improve?
Simple rules to remember to not avoid

5. User Story
User Stories should meet INVEST criteria:
● Independent
● Negotiable
● Valuable
● Estimable
● Small
● Testable
You always must answer what value this
feature brings to end users and product

6. User Stories tips
What we need from User stories:
● What’s the main user action?
● Describe an intention, not a
feature
● Keep it short, not tech details
● Avoid describing UI
You always must answer what value this
feature brings to end users and product
Team
can discuss
and put comments
to describe
and add
other relevant info

7. Prioritization matrix
It helps for unaspected decisions during sprint
Should be easy collocating each
US in the correct quadrant:
● Pre-labeling US with a
predefined user value
● Use estimated value in
planning to have always
visible quadrant result

8. "It’s not a best practice, but sometime
happens!”
What you should do is prepare team with
all required info to let they estimate USs
— Someone smart
To estimate or not to estimate?
Estimation is part of grooming?

9. Thank You!
Favara Vincenzo