Scrum refinement
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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.
Scrum refinement
- 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 1 2 3 4 5
- 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?