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

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