ROF Backlog Refinement

Objective: to break the story down into smaller parts, becoming more precise, and list the tasks/work that is involved in order to bring this to a state of ready, to increase understanding and confidence that it can be completed.  It’s an ongoing activity to add details, so it can be put into a sprint to be developed.

Why has ROF been created: to support and drive rail safety, with the intention of reducing occurrences.

Our responsibilities:

·        building the right thing

·        building the thing right

Some of the things we could do in refining:

·       Mocking up a page and what it could look like

·       Defining acceptance criteria

·       Discussing the functionality with customers and developers

·       Setting goals for the current work or sprint

·       Defining tasks that will construct the solution

·       Creative collaboration of an architecture of the outcome

·       Estimating

·       Experiments/Research that could take a couple of hours this will be defined but not done within the refinement

·       Slicing large PBI's up into smaller functional units of work