Backlog Management & Grooming

Summary

Keeping a prioritized, well-defined list of work items ready for the team to pull from — a BA often supports this by ensuring stories are clear, sized appropriately, and have acceptance criteria before sprint planning.

• 1Take a messy list of feature ideas and groom it into a clean, prioritized backlog.
• 2Learn to write backlog items with just enough detail — not a full spec, not just a title.
• 3Practice archiving stale backlog items instead of letting the backlog grow forever.