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When your backlog is cluttered like this, it can seem impossible to bring order to the chaos. But the Scrum Guide does not give a detailed description of how exactly to undertake this task. It provides flexibility and allows teams to choose the frequency of, approach to, and agile refinement techniques used in Product Backlog Refinement. The customizable nature of Scrum meetings is important, but you should still keep in mind the key elements of Product Backlog Refinement.<\/p>\n

Where the first-principles approaches focus on what fundamental values drive prioritization, sometimes you need something even simpler. When you\u2019re faced with a large, unordered backlog, it\u2019s hard to say if item #5 is in the right spot. But you can probably figure out if #5 should be higher or lower than item #6. Prioritizing by team values means deciding what to work on based on the intuition and ideals of the team.<\/p>\n

Review your specific goals and initiatives with the team to determine if there are any areas where you are lagging behind or changes to what customers are asking for. This is an example of a categorized product backlog refined in Aha! Backlog items are organized into different sections in the parking lot based on size and new items that still need review. Ague items being brought into Product Backlog refinement and the Development Team getting caught up in discussing any possible solution are signs of refinement gone wrong. Such discussion are consuming the energy of everyone in the meeting, including those involved in the discussion. When facing this teams often set a 10 minute time box to discuss a Product Backlog item.<\/p>\n

About backlog refinement<\/h2>\n

You can skip today, but over time it will make other improvements more expensive and can cause the cost of delay to increase exponentially. Reverse \u2014 These make users unhappy when they\u2019re there, happy when they\u2019re not. For example, you might implement high-security features requiring an extra step to login.<\/p>\n

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However you choose to categorize your backlog, remember that you want to be able to easily see which features still need to be reviewed and which ones are already ready for the development team. This way product management and engineering can quickly identify what to work on next. Here we are focusing on the product backlog as a tool to inform your product roadmap. But it is worth noting that there are also other types of backlogs, including release and sprint backlogs.<\/p>\n

Imagine you\u2019re in the kitchen getting ready to prepare dinner. You open the fridge and find you don\u2019t have quite everything you need to make a full meal because you didn\u2019t take the time to check and prepare the right ingredients. Making dinner just became much more of a chore than originally anticipated. Create a graph using all items as nodes and with the dependencies arrows as edges. Highlight dependencies with arrows to clarify how the items depend on each other or on external factors. The remaining Product Backlog items are distributed among the developers.<\/p>\n

The better or worse your estimates, the better or worse your prioritization. To apply this method to your product backlog, you would tag issues with either \u2018important\u2019 or \u2018not important,\u2019 and \u2018urgent\u2019 or \u2018not urgent\u2019. On the other hand, this approach does not consider value at all. That means you might find you\u2019re delaying high-value items for a long time, because they never rise to being the smallest effort.<\/p>\n

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Avoid having a product owner or business analysts refine the product backlog items on their own and then hand things over to the rest of the team to build and develop. Always have various skill sets represented in the conversations from analysis, development, and testing, etc. to avoid misunderstandings and ensure everyone is on the same page in terms of the work ahead. There should be no major surprises in sprint planning as most items being planned should already be familiar to the team via the refinement activities.<\/p>\n

Be reasonable about how much you can achieve in, say, an hour. Whoever is running the meeting should prepare beforehand by looking through the backlog and choosing which items to look at. But if Backlog Refinement doesn’t become embedded, it can soon fall by the wayside. And when that happens, just watch the backlog become a free-for-all wishlist, full of undefined and unconnected items that lack rhyme or reason. A common example of a linear cost of delay is money lost due to competitors already having a feature that you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n