| POA Domain |
Backlog Refinement |
Applying Foundational
Concepts |
- POA Practitioners may discover elements
during refinement that affect product alignment
in strategy, initiative, or delivery horizons.
- Such changes must be assessed and added to
the product backlog to achieve the necessary
conformance to the product vision.
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Cultivate Customer
Intimacy |
- Collect and reflect the customer perspective by elaborating PBIs from a user viewpoint and the outcome they are likely to receive.
- The outcome should be grounded by empathy for the customer.
- Quoting customer examples often helps the team better understand user perspectives, so that the outcomes meet needs.
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| Engage the Whole Team |
- The entire team needs to participate in backlog refinement sessions. It is not the sole responsibility of the Product Owner.
- It is the responsibility of the POA Practitioner to consider the opinion of the whole team in what constitutes the characteristics of a PBI to be "ready."
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| Make an Impact |
- POA Practitioners work constantly, using various techniques to prioritize and refine PBIs in the backlog.
- They also use this analysis to refine the PBIs to identify appropriate product characteristics, depending on what is needed for the iteration.
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| Deliver Often |
- Right-sizing PBI items is a necessary step for delivering value.
- The POA Practitioner may encounter large sized items that need to be analyzed and decomposed into smaller items or stories.
- The appropriate stories are selected to be included in the theme that is relevant for the iteration or the release.
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| Learn Fast |
- As the product evolves, the team's understanding on how much refinement is needed for the PBIs to be ready for the next iteration improves.
- In the initial phases, the team collectively decides on the parameters for a PBI, Epic, or user story to be ready for development, which is then assessed in every iteration until a shared understanding is reached.
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| Obsess About Value |
- Optimize product development by ensuring that the PBIs get refined just-in-time, reducing wasted effort on non-essential activities. This frees up the POA Practitioner’s time to focus on tasks that provide greater product value.
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