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Grooming - how to keep your backlog efficient

Grooming - how to keep your backlog efficient

Why your backlog should be clean and how to keep it that way. This talk will cover main idea behind this meeting and how it solves problem with low quality tasks in backlog.

Pawel Dyrek

December 06, 2016
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  1. Grooming meeting is one of meetings performed in Scrum process

    during the sprint, to refine tasks in backlog for next iteration. Grooming meeting What grooming meeting is?
  2. Grooming meeting What grooming meeting is? During a product backlog

    refinement, the team and Product Owner discuss the top items on the product backlog. The team is given a chance to ask the questions that would normally arise during sprint planning.
  3. • Removing user stories that are no longer relevant •

    Creating new user stories based on new needs • Re-aligning priority • Split user stories into smaller ones when needed Grooming meeting Goals of grooming meeting.
  4. • Assigning missing estimates • Correcting estimates based on new

    information • Split user stories into smaller ones when needed • Clarifying unclear stories Grooming meeting Goals of grooming meeting.