Ensuring backlog refinement readiness is crucial for an agile team's flow of work and helps determine the level of work that is ready for teams to take up in their upcoming sprints. Backlog readiness can be gauged based on the definition of ready metric which defines how many work items are ready for the team to take up during planning or to execute the project. It is an important metric to assess the effectiveness and accountability of the product management team and the product backlog.   Any project manager or scrum master can ensure backlog readiness by having regular refinement meetings, active project risk management, assessment of technical debt backlog, product owner product manager sync meetings.