If your team uses, or claims to use, an agile approach you’ve probably been asked to lead, or at least play a key role in, backlog refinement.

Backlog refinement is the often misunderstood activity in agile approaches that business analysts are uniquely qualified to excel at.

As long as you understand what it’s intended to accomplish.

Hint: “writing stories” isn’t it.

Join Kent McDonald to find out how to up your backlog refinement game and be the product person everyone wants on their team.

In this session you’ll learn

• The true purpose of backlog refinement
• Tips for effective backlog refinement
• Techniques for getting your team the information they need to build the right thing.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Learn how to maintain a manageable backlog
• Discover how to keep your team focused on the right things to build
• Collaborate with your team to identify information they need to build that right thing