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Bloom, there it is!Refinement that will blow your bloomin’ mind

Our topics today

• Vision & Value

• Managing the Backlog

• Backlog Refinement

Vicki RiehlAgilist

Meet the team

Kris SchroederAgilist

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Product Vision

The Vision Statement

• Identifies where the organization intends to go• Serves as a guide for setting course of action

• Owned by the Product Owner

• Describes the Product Purpose

• Reflects Stakeholder Value

Breaking it down

Vision example

From Visual Paradigm

Communicating the Vision

• Own the vision and be passionate

• Share it often

• Listen to feedback and adapt

• Focus on Stakeholder value, not technology

Benefits of Story Mapping

• Efficient tool for attaining a shared understanding

• Provides ability to quickly identify gaps in requirements

• Facilitates meaningful prioritization

Seeing your product visually mapped out is VERY powerful

Anatomy of a User Story Map

Wake UpGet

DressedEat

BreakfastDrive to

Work

Workflow sequence

Goal: Arrive to work by 8am.

Backbone

Turn off alarm

Get up

Shower

Iron clothes

Put on clothes

Make coffee

Make cereal

Cut up fruit

Set GPS

Turn on carU

ser

Sto

ries

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Game

Celebrity Prioritization

Game

• As a team, decide in what order the celebrities will be saved

• Once a celebrity is on the rescue boat, they cannot return to the sinking ship

• Save one individual at a time

• You don’t know how long before the ship sinks!

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Managing the BacklogBacklog Maturity

Managing the Backlog

• The Product Backlog is constantly changing…

• How do we ensure we are spending the right amount of time preparing the right Backlog Items?

Cone of Uncertainty

Product backlog Development Production

Uncertainty Certainty

Cone of Uncertainty

Product backlog Development Production

Uncertainty Certainty

The Goldilocks Principle

Finding what is “just right” for you

You want to achieve enough of the benefits of refinement while

minimizing your waste.

Stages of backlog maturity

Discuss with stakeholder

Document idea

Identify user benefit

Prioritize

Free-form

Activities

Planning

Format

Analyze & decompose

Estimate(t-shirt size)

Identify dependencies

>4+ Sprints

User Story

Identify Acceptance

Criteria

Estimate (story points)

Work dependencies

Identify place in next 1-3 Sprints

Acceptance Criteria

Identify test data

Complete UX/UI design

Legal, compliance, security reviews

Plan for team delivery

Supplementary artifacts,

wireframes

DEEP Criteria

• Detailed Appropriately – Items at the top are described in more detail

• Estimated – Estimates are less precise as we move down the backlog

• Emergent – Items will be added, removed and reprioritized

• Prioritized – Items we are going to work on next are at the top

.The ideal attributes of a product backlog

Definition of Ready

• A ready item is:

• Clear

• Feasible

• Testable

Ready, set… Bloom!

• Business value clearly articulated

• Dependencies identified / No external dependencies block the story from being completed

• Acceptance criteria defined

• Size estimated by delivery team

• Small enough to fit in one sprint

• Team has a plan for how to demonstrate the backlog item

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Backlog Refinement

Backlog Refinement

• Increase awareness of upcoming work

• Smoother Sprint planning meetings

• Better understanding

• Fewer surprises

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Thank You