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.