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PRODUCT BACKLOG

Refinement
The Product Backlog Refinement refers to activities that help us keeping the product backlog in optimal form. These activities can
be split to: (1) creating and refining (adding details) to backlog items, (2) estimating them and (3) prioritization.

Why?
TO EMBRACE CHANGE TO MAKE ITEMS READY
Refinement sessions allow us to embrace change: add new Product Backlog Refinement activities ensure that we have just
items, remove items that are not relevant anymore or do not enough items ready for implementation. Studies show that items
contribute to business goals, analyze details of items that elaborated before the iteration are more likely to be completed in
approach implementation. comparison with items not being elaborated.

Who? DECISION MAKER

Development Team
Facilitator

Product
Owner Business SCRUM
Representatives Master

What? Users
Backlog refinement is an ongoing collaborative effort led by a Product Owner. Stakeholders participation as well as development
team participation is essential to having good conversations and create shared understanding.

Review Refine Resize Prioritize


Create shared understanding, Add details: create models, UI Estimate items, decompose Ensuring the items with the
clarify what is needed, dare to sketches, write acceptance when needed remembering to biggest business value get to
remove what’s not needed, add criteria, split stories into create items small enough to the top of the backlog.
new items. smaller bites. fit in an iteration and valuable
at the same time.

When to hold a backlog


Planning Planning Backlog Refinement
refinement session?
There are different options when to refine the backlog. It is up to Iteration Review
Iteration Review
the team to decide what works for them. Most teams choose from + Backlog Refinement
Retrospective Retrospective
one of the following:
1. In the Iteration Review Meeting
2. In a separate meeting prior to Iteration Planning Meeting
Backlog Refinement Planning Backlog Refinement
3. In a separate meeting couple of days before the end of
Planning
the iteration
4. Continuously (every day a bit of refinement) Iteration Review Iteration Review
Retrospective Retrospective

Dedicate 5-10 % of the iteration duration


to the backlog refinement activities

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