OMG. The boring Backlog refinement meeting. Not again! 🙄

Ditch that boring meeting! The closer look on some common anti-patterns of the backlog refinement based on my observations.

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“Product Backlog refinement is the act of adding detail, estimates, and order to items in the Product Backlog.”
— The Scrum Guide

Refinement is not the estimation!

Refinement is not the place for low-level problem-solving!

What to do with all this?

“The Scrum Team decides how and when refinement is done.”
— The Scrum Guide

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Prague based full-stack developer and agile practitioner. Engineering Manager at @productboard 🚀

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Josef Sekava

Prague based full-stack developer and agile practitioner. Engineering Manager at @productboard 🚀