Backlog Refinement Session Plan
Keep the backlog ready and small.
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Plan a backlog refinement session. Product area and backlog size: [BACKLOG_SUMMARY]. Team roles: [ROLES]. Time available: [TIME]. Produce: a 60-minute agenda (review top items, clarify, split, estimate, add acceptance criteria, identify dependencies); a definition of ready checklist (clear user value, acceptance criteria, small enough for one sprint, dependencies known, design available if needed); a story splitting guide with patterns (by workflow step, by rule, by data type, by interface, by happy path first) with an example; and an estimation approach (relative sizing). Add prompts for the product owner to prepare, a table for results: Item | Questions | Split? | Estimate | Ready? | Follow-up. Include anti-patterns (refining everything, estimating without understanding, designing in the meeting) and a measure (share of next sprint items that are ready at planning). Use my backlog items as examples where provided. Include a worked example of splitting one large story from my backlog into three smaller ones, each with a one-line acceptance criterion, and the rule for deciding when an item is too big to estimate in the meeting.
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