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How to facilitate multi-team Product Backlog Refinements
Before and during the Sprint, effort needs to be put into coordination to ensure the Scrum teams deliver a working integrated product. This situation can be improved with Multi-team Product Backlog Refinement sessions. This practice increases flexibility and speed in product development. Use this article as a cookbook to get familiar with this practice yourself.
What is Multi-Team Product Backlog Refinement (mt-PBR)?
The Scrum guide specifically mentions refinement, but does not elaborate on how to do it:
“The Scrum Team decides how and when refinement is done.“ (SG)
Multi-team product backlog refinement (mt-PBR) is a practice proposed in the scaling framework LeSS. The goal of this practice is to maximize information sharing and collaboration during product backlog refinement. The main idea is to bring the whole development group together in one refinement session instead of teams conducting separate refinements. This allows everybody to contribute and it helps creating a shared understanding of the work. Even if your company does not use LeSS, you most probably will appreciate this refinement practice.
