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Redefining Refinement Meetings – Neat, Engaging, Rewarding

Hristina Koleva

13:30-17:00 Tuesday 11th June

For years, there’s been a weekly hour for ‘Refinement’ on our calendars. But what exactly are those? Are they ‘Refinement meetings’, ‘Grooming sessions’, or ‘Backlog refinements’? What’s their purpose? Do they benefit the team, or are they just another prescribed time-waster?

There’s no one-size-fits-all answer. What’s clear is that the team needs comprehensive, accessible, and organized knowledge about a requirement – and extensive documentation is a no-go.

In response to non-working practices, here comes the User Story Analysis. It’s a colourful Miro board that gathers questions, ideas, risks, and more, providing clarity during Refinement Meetings.

It builds confidence in the team’s ability to deliver, and improves communication. Missing requirements and poor communication are the root causes of all bugs, delays, and frustration.

User Story Analysis is a neat, quality-driven approach that saves time wasted on clarifications, scattered across various channels.

This practice enables teams to empathize with users, uncover context and intentions, brainstorm on potential issues, and identify dependencies early in the process. It’s a powerful way to make Refinement Meetings productive and efficient.

What you will learn

  1. Refinement meetings without an agenda are a waste of time
  2. Invest in analysis rather than searching and waiting for answers, fixing bugs, and calming down burnt-out developers and disappointed customers
  3. Engage everyone involved and keep all the information in one place.

Session Details

  • Intermediate
  • 3.5 Hours
  • Interactive Tutorial
  • Experience, exploration & experimentation
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We look forward to welcoming you to EuroSTAR 2024.

Session Speaker

Hristina Koleva

Product Owner – ICB, Bulgaria

Hristina Koleva is a pragmatic process geek, software testing expert, product owner, and dedicated mentor.

For 17 years, she has realised that software quality cannot be ensured through testing alone but needs a comprehensive process-oriented approach underpinned by efficient practices.

Hristina firmly believes in early risk mitigation and intensive collaboration as key tools for delivering high-quality software.

Her mission is to help as many teams start on the right foot with software quality and agile workflows and overcome challenges such as no testing in place, inadequately sized or poorly written requirements, low team engagement, huge process waste, and technical debt.

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