Backlog vs. fine-tuned tasks...

[Shawn Nolan]

Is there a way, or a good idea to use the backlog for un-refined items, and after refining the items to put them in their own pool like "fine-tuned", and when ready to start adding tasks to sprints, you just grab from the "fine-tuned" pool and drag them into your sprint?

Thx, shawn

[Mario Carabelli · Accepted solution]

In classical scrum this fine-tuning of the backlog is called backlog grooming:

http://scrummethodology.com/scrum-backlog-grooming/

To realize this approach in jira you go in every backlog grooming session to your backlog and create a new (still inactive) sprint.

In this sprint you add as much of your groomed and as backlog to tge sprint as you see fit.

As soon as your ready you make the sprint active and go from there.

For technical details on planning sprints look here:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwareserver/planning-sprints-938845427.html

I hope this answers your question.

With kind regards

Mario

[Shawn Nolan]

cool thx, I'll check these links out and try this method out. Appreciate it.

[Mario Carabelli]

My pleasure 🙂.

I think the main thing is trying stuff out and improving your process as you go.

If it helps you, feel free to mark my answer as accepted. I would appreciate it.

With kind regards

Mario