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Photo of a firefighter spraying a hose on the flaming contents of a garbage truck.

Caption: Your new backlog items have just arrived.

When a user story generates more than 3-4 rules during Example Mapping, it's probably too big! 🐘

This technique doesn't just clarify requirements—it helps identify when stories should be split.
Check out my article for practical tips on implementing Example Mapping in your Scrum team:
#AgileCoaching #BacklogRefinement
https://agilepainrelief.com/blog/example-mapping-your-secret-weapon-for-effective-acceptance-criteria/

This can only lead to story point inflation and job loss. We learned nothing from the story point tariffs of the 1930s.

#scrum #scrumteam #productowner #scrummaster #SAFe #backlogrefinement #tariffs #trumptariffs #tradewar2025 #Meme #memes #Humor

President Trump holding up a large board of proposed tariffs.

Caption: Effective immediately we will be tariffing the story points of all off-shore teams

#scrum #scrumteam #productowner #backlog #sprintbacklog #backlogrefinement #Meme #memes #Humor

Jeff Goldblum's character from Jurassic Park (labeled "newly onboarded product owner looking at the existing backlog") looking at a large pile of dinosaur feces. He says "That is one big pile of shit"

#scrum #scrumteam #dev #developer #qa #requirements #backlog #backlogrefinement #Meme #memes #Humor

Vault boy happy while looking at a small crab labeled "Requirements during backlog refinement"

Next panel shows Vault boy looking alarmed when the crab grew larger of him. The larger crab is labeled "Requirements after dev started working on it"

#AI and #BacklogRefinement.
One of the co-creators of Scrum, Jeff Sutherland, has recently started to talk about using AI to speed up Product Backlog Refinement. Ugh.

For a few years, I’ve felt that Jeff has lost the thread when it comes to the fact that software development work is done by real people, aka humans. When we use an AI (LLM cough, cough) to speed the process, we must ask what we’ve given up. (Hint: Twice the Work, Half the Time).

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#scrum #scrumteam #StoryPoints #backlogrefinement #backlog #productowner #Meme #memes #Humor

Picture of a hopscotch board where the 5 square is a hole in the pavement.

Caption: We have lost a lot of team members to 5-point stories that seemingly have no end

#scrum #productowner #requirements #backlogrefinement #sprintreview #scrumteam #memes #Meme #Humor #memeops

Photo of a fast food double cheeseburger with the caption "What the requirements described".

Photo of a delicious looking multi-course dinner with the caption "What the product owner thought was going to be delivered"

#scrum #scrummaster #productowner #backlog #sprintbacklog #backlogrefinement #trumpharrisdebate #Meme #memes #Humor

Split screen debate photo of Donald Trump labeled "Product owner" and Kamala Harris labeled "Scrum master"

Caption:
Scrum master: Is the story ready for refinement?
Product owner: I have concepts of a story.

Reminder: A #PRODUCT #BACKLOG #Refinement is about what the name suggests:
Refine the Backlog!
Don't focus sole on writing new Items or even adding implementation details to existing ones at that stage.
Check if the Backlog reflects your goal, vision and your user's needs!
And most of it all:
DELETE! The refinement is also the time to sort out obsolete stuff. Get rid of waste and ballast, here!
A Backlog MUSTN'T contain dozen of Items!

#Scrum #BacklogRefinement #delete #Goals #productBacklog