Hey Bret, I think right now the info is scattered around in different videos. I might make one about it soon since I will be working on #workingagreements with the teams soon :)
Great presentation skills! I have a question: When should the team meet to refine the backlog? Which scrum ceremony? I always thought the SM and PO can chose a time apart from the major scrum ceremonies...but if you have to involve the whole team, how do you go about that?
Thanks, Charis! Yes, refinement is supposed to be an ongoing activity, not an event in Scrum. But the easiest way to put everyone on the same page is by creating a meeting and going through the items to be done next Sprint - providing definition & clarity. This could be done offline but depends on the team might be better to have a recurrent meeting.
Hey, those are different things. Refinement is for making sure everyone understands what will be selected to work on during Sprint Planning. Some refinement is done on the second part of the Sprint Planning but if no collaboration was done before - I'm afraid it could go infinitely....
Hi Maria! First of all thank you so much for all your work. I’ve learnt from these sessions. Quick question to you regarding the following scenario. Let’s say I’m done with a 2 month long discovery/ elicitation session and I have high-level user stories (by high level I mean stories which don’t have the full fledged details) in my Product Backlog. At what point do I go about grooming the stories / getting additional inputs from the customer for sprint 1 and when do I start grooming other stories (stories not in sprint 1). Thank you! Also is there a medium through which people can arrange 1 on 1 sessions with you to ask questions like the above?
Hey, thanks for the comment. Well depending on when the sprint starts and how much work the team thinks they can fit in it. I would suggest starting with 2 refinement sessions per week to get the stories ready for Sprint 1 and then continue on demand. Usually having at least 1 session per weeks helps creating a habit, as I say in the video :)
