Backlog Grooming

Lead: Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated) and/or Team Leads
Product Owner, Team Leads + chosen team members, Scrum Master(s)
No more than 2 hours
Objective: Review the high-priority tickets and/or discuss what the next sprint should focus on. The product owner will highlight the functional priorities and the tech leads will highlight the technical priorities.
When:
- Team VR:
- Team JSI:
- Team Ona:
- Team Parrot:
Meeting Invite: OpenLMIS v3 Backlog Grooming.ics

Backlog grooming is most likely to succeed when the following have been accomplished prior to the meeting:
- The Product Owner has defined the functional priorities for each team for the next sprint. These are marked in bold within the particular team's section.
- The team has created tickets in Jira with sufficient detail that relate to each functional priority.
- The team lead has curated these tickets and linked to them in the "Backlog Grooming Sprint NN" page each ticket should have a checkbox next to it
During the meeting:
- Product Owner outlines functional priorities and the team discusses any conversations that are jotted down per functional area
- Review each ticket that is proposed by functional area
  - Determine if the ticket is scoped well enough and if there are any dependencies that aren't accounted for
- Develop a roadmap of gaps that need to be completed in the backlog before the next sprint can start
- The team prepares for the Planning meeting where story points and estimates are defined.

This section displays a subset of the backlog that was completed for Sprint 47:

Q: OLMIS-4077 - Getting issue details... STATUS (MUST)
OLMIS-3826 - Getting issue details... STATUS (MUST)
OLMIS-2734 - Getting issue details... STATUS
- Fulfillment current Integration Test approach slows developers down

Items to note:

Each functional area is in bold
Each ticket has a checkbox next to it representing a task
One item without a checkmark means that this ticket was considered, but not picked up by the team.
The priority defined by the Product Owner is in parenthesis (MUST) to signal to the team leader that this is critical.
The "Q:" signals to the Product Owner that this issue has a question that needs to be addressed before the sprint beings.
The "A:" signals to the Team lead that the Product Owner has responded in the ticket.

Meeting Notes

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