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The Professional Scrum Master Guide

You're reading from The Professional Scrum Master Guide

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Published in Jul 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800205567

Pages 174 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Fred Heath

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1:The Scrum Framework

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Scrum

3. Chapter 2: Scrum Theory and Principles

4. Chapter 3: The Scrum Team

5. Chapter 4: Scrum Events

6. Chapter 5: Scrum Artifacts

7. Section 2:Scrum in Action

8. Chapter 6: Planning and Estimating with Scrum

9. Chapter 7: The Sprint Journey

10. Chapter 8: Facets of Scrum

11. Section 3:The PSM Certification

12. Chapter 9: Preparing for the PSM I Assessment

13. Assessments

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

15. Index

Refining the Product Backlog

Before we can start a Sprint, we must have a refined Product Backlog. Product Backlog refinement is the activity of breaking down backlog items into more concise and manageable items and providing more details. During refining, the Scrum Team analyzes, discusses, estimates, and orders backlog items. The purpose of the activity is to enable Developers to start working on items with the least amount of disruption or ambiguity.

So, a refined backlog is one in which items are detailed, estimated, and ordered. We have already learned how to create detailed and descriptive backlog items as user stories or features in Chapter 5, Scrum Artifacts. We have also examined how to estimate items in Chapter 6, Planning and Estimating with Scrum. In this section, we'll delve more into the one remaining aspect of backlog refinement we haven't covered yet: ordering.

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Authors (1)

Fred Heath

Fred Heath is a freelance developer and consultant based in Wales, UK. Over the last 20 years, he's worked at every stage of the software development life cycle using a variety of languages and platforms and ended up falling in love with Ruby and its ecosystem. Fred enjoys solving tricky problems, FOSS, meta programming, Behavior-Driven Development, and Agile processes. He also frequently writes online and speaks at conferences about Ruby, software development, and best practices. Fred is always happy to hear from you and chat about Ruby and Rails on Twitter.

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