Backlog Grooming #2: How Small Is Small Enough?
As already discussed (click here for the previous blog post), Backlog Grooming is a workshop held to take large backlog items and slice them down into smaller pieces. More specifically, we discussed...
View ArticleBacklog Grooming #3: When Have We Sliced Enough?
As discussed in a previous post, Backlog Grooming is a workshop held to take large backlog items and slice them down into smaller pieces. More specifically, we discussed the three major goals of...
View ArticleBacklog Grooming #4: Estimating Backlog Items
A major goal of backlog grooming is to provide effort estimations for backlog items that are either not estimated (usually because they are new) or improperly estimated (usually because they were...
View ArticleBacklog Grooming #5 – Large Item Estimation
Backlog Grooming includes the team responsibility for ensuring that the ENTIRE Product Backlog is estimated at all times. This means that, while we will spend 70% of our time discussing, slicing, and...
View ArticleBacklog Grooming #6 – Large Item Estimation (Method #2)
Another method for estimating backlog items, particularly when there’s a lot of them to estimate, works like this: Get your backlog items printed out on cards and get a room with a wide wall space (at...
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