If there is a constraint that the whole, remote scrum team must be involved in breaking down work from the highest/Epic level, does anyone have suggestions on how to foster engagement?
The scrum team becomes more vocal when we get to story refinement and sizing, but when we're taking a big Epic and trying to decompose it, most don't participate. Speaking with them individually, most say that it's because it's hard to grasp at that level and that they feel like they don't have much to contribute until we get more into the technical/implementation conversation.