Team Backlog Refinement

The Team Backlog Refinement is the process of adding details to the Team Backlog entries, making estimates, and determining the order of the Team Backlog entries. Refinement is a continuous process in which the Team Product Owner and the Working Team together detail the Team Backlog entries. When the Team Backlog is refined, the entries are examined and revised. It should normally not take up more than 10% of the Working Team’s capacity. However, the Team Product Owner can update or have the entries in the Team Backlog updated at any time.

The Team Backlog Refinement mainly serves to prepare the next Team Planning . In this case, the Team Product Owner the Working Team new team Backlog Items before and can appreciate this from the Working Team. If entries are about to begin, the team makes sure that the entries are small enough that they can be dragged into an iteration. (This is a prerequisite for the “pull” and is often also referred to as part of the Definition of Ready (DoR) ). If this is not the case, the team refines the corresponding entry by splitting it into several entries (splitting).

If the team does not work in iterations, but continuously using Kanban, the team agrees on an estimate limit from which it is necessary to split Backlog Items.

Estimation of the implementation effort of backlog entries

Estimates by the entire team are important for two reasons

  1. By estimating together, the entire team analyzes the respective backlog entry from different perspectives and enriches it with information such as acceptance criteria and boundary conditions. The first ideas for implementation are also generated.
  2. The result of the estimate is a number with which individual backlog elements can be evaluated, for example for prioritization. In addition, it is now easy to calculate how many elements can be dragged into an iteration, namely by comparing the backlog elements completed in the last iterations (team velocity ).

The team uses the Planning-Poker ® method to estimate the effort .

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Further suitable links:

Events Roles Groups Artifacts
Team Planning

Team Sync

Team Review

Team Retrospective

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Cluster Backlog Refinement

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Portfolio Refinement

Team Product Owner

Team System Engineer

Team Scrum Master

Working Team

Community of Practice

Team Backlog

Inspectable Results

Team DoD

Team Improvement Backlog