Slides from Ellen's session at Big Apple Scrum Day, 11 May 2018.
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of agile product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver at the right time, for the right customer, and refining them for delivery. This session will share a fast-paced introduction of a common sense, tested approach for defining and refining user stories—or any other method you use to represent backlog items. This enables backlog items to get “ready” to get to “done”.
You will learn how refining backlog items using Structured Conversations with the 7 Product Dimensions enables you to slice backlog items while deeply enhancing teams’ domain knowledge. You identify its usefulness for initial, multi-team and single team product backlog refinement.
We explore how the concept of refinement—making backlog items “ready”—is a corollary to “done”. You’ll participate in a card-based exercise to more deeply understand each of the 7 Product Dimensions. You discover how the dimensions can enlighten and deepen your refinement conversations. Scenes from real Structured Conversations help you visualize making refinement come alive. Join us as you learn to effectively and efficiently explore, evaluate, and confirm a shared understanding of refined backlog items so they are ready for implementation.