Have you heard a term “backlog starvation”? It happens when a Scrum Team gathers for a Sprint Planning event and do not have enough ready items in a Product Backlog to work within a Sprint. Is this something that you experience with your team?
Please join us for 2.5 hour hands on workshop to learn how to facilitate an effective Product Backlog Refinement for breaking down and further defining Product Backlog items into smaller more precise items, to add details, such as a description, order, and size. Practice the techniques for splitting user stories into smaller ones. Practice in small groups and get some further insights from the Certified Agile Coaches and Trainers.
Scrum Masters
Product Owners
Developers
Team Leads
Project Managers
Stakeholders
Increase the effectiveness of product backlog refinement.
Definition of Coaching
Coaching Stances
3 Types Of Listening
Arc of a coaching
conversation
Creating powerful
open-ended questions
- Grasp the meeting flow, inputs, and outputs
- Why the Scrum Guide does not consider Backlog Refinement as a Scrum Event, but an ongoing process
- Make Product Backlog Refinement a valuable process for the teams and stakeholders
- How the definition of Ready could help get the team off the ground
- Avoid possible anti-patterns
- SPIDR approach for splitting user stories
- Practice facilitation in small groups
15 Minutes:
Check-in and make connections
15 Minutes:
Sprint Review: Objectives, timing and roles
20 Minutes:
Exercise 1: Refinement session inputs and Outcome. Debrief
15 Minutes
SPIDR technique for splitting User Stories
20 Minutes:
Exercise 2: Practice Splitting User Stories
20 Minutes:
Typical anti-patterns and how they affect the teams.
20 Minutes:
Exercise 3: What anti-patterns do you observe with your team’s Sprint Review? Debrief
15 Minutes:
What are 1-2 new things that you have learned today that you can take back to your team Sprint Review to improve it?
10 Minutes:
Q&A, Celebration and Wrap-up
3 hours
