From the course: Agile Requirements Foundations
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Refining the backlog
From the course: Agile Requirements Foundations
Refining the backlog
- Refining the backlog is an ongoing task for agile BAs, and a hefty task that requires daily attention. It involves continually estimating, analyzing, prioritizing, and breaking down stories in order to ensure that upcoming sprints have what the team needs to keep delivering. The backlog is a funnel-shaped list of items, usually in the form of user stories. Some backlog refining is done in a formal meeting called a product backlog refinement session. Then more detailed user story refinement meetings for user story details are also common. Here the team gets together to discuss and review backlog items in context. Then in the user story refinement the team works on user stories and acceptance criteria. The goal is to make sure the team has a queue of work ready to go at the right levels of detail. The team looks at the short, mid, and long-term views of the product. Backlog refining meetings should be happening every couple of weeks. And sometimes user story refinement may happen…
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