Mark Grove
Managing Consultant / Accredited Kanban Coach & Trainer / Agile Coach
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Mark Grove is an agile coach and Management Consultant with Excella in Arlington, VA. He has over 24 years in the IT profession with the last ten years focusing on coaching individuals and teams while leveraging practices from both the Kanban method and Scrum framework. His coaching and mentoring focus on system optimization, value delivery, servant leadership, and the agile mindset to welcome and embrace change even late in the development stage. Mark has also developed and delivered numerous interactive training sessions to the general-public and for private engagements. Mark is a Kanban University Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT) and Coach, a Certified Scrum Professional-Scrum Master (CSP-SM) and Product Owner (CSP-PO).
Getting To Ready: Unhiding Work With A Backlog Refinement Board
Is your Scrum team losing its way during backlog refinement? Does refinement contain “hidden” work difficult to account for? Is a Definition of Ready (DoR) weakly applied? Do you even have one?
Borrowing lessons from the Kanban method, we look how to visualize a team’s backlog refinement process using a backlog refinement board – ultimately allowing a team to make work more visible to better meet its DoR. Benefits include improved understanding of work items, an “unhiding” of work, an appreciation for “where” refinement work resides – leading to greater confidence the work item has truly met the DoR prior to sprint planning.
We’ll examine how to identify the team’s refinement steps, how to turn those steps into a visual board, and how the backlog refinement board “fits in” with the team’s existing Scrum board. We’ll conclude with some real-world examples.
This session is for anyone who is looking for a better way to meet its DoR by managing the hidden work during backlog refinement.
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