Define: "Backlog Grooming" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Use this meeting to catch up on your email. None of these tickets are ever seeing the light of day."
A recurring session where the team reviews and prioritizes items in the product backlog.
What does "Backlog Grooming" actually mean?
"Staring at a list of 500 critically broken features that the company has absolutely zero intention of ever fixing."
"We will be holding a backlog grooming session on Thursday afternoon."
"We spent an hour in backlog grooming just to move the same technical debt tickets to the next quarter for the fourth time."
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18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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