Definition
Backlog grooming occurs when the Product Owner and the rest of the team review and prioritize items on the Backlog. This is a regular activity and can be in the form of an officially scheduled meeting, or ongoing activity. The list of activities that occur during the refinement of this backlog include:
- Removing non-relevant user stories
- Building new user stories
- Prioritizing the user stories
- Estimating user stories
- Correcting said estimates with newly discovered information
- Dividing high-priority user stories that are too coarse to fit in an iteration
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