ADO Work Items
This Work Item type level should be small enough to see progress made daily.
What is a Task
Note: Best Practice calls for a task to be no more than 8-12 hours so the task burn down is seen daily. This allows for scrum masters to know where the issues are
Which Role in Scrum is responsible for ensuring that the Backlog delivers value?
Who is the Product Owner
Describes a system as having just enough features to be usable by customers while still providing value. Allows the team to get to production at a faster rate (focuses on the "Must Haves").
What is MVP or Minimal Viable Product
What access level requires no additional cost or charge to use Azure Devops?
What is Stakeholder License
This Azure Devops System feature can be updated on the task board and moved from state to state as work is completed
What is the Card
This work item is made up of one or more "PBI's or User "Stories" that together provide business value. This level of work item typically takes longer than a single sprint to complete.
What is a Feature
Name a characteristic of the product backlog
What is "Stacked Ranked" (Prioritized and Ordered)
Which of the process templates is the main process template used by Hitachi for Training internal teams-Basic, Agile, Scrum, CMMI
Scrum Process Template
The Access type that the majority of the development team needs to use Azure DevOps
What is Basic
This ADO capability allows for anyone with access to be able to analyze the project health
What is Dashboards/Queries
This Work Item can be described as any of these three:
1) A "Big Piece of Work" - too large for a sprint
2) A process or sub-process
3) A business objective
Hint: Child Work Items are Features
What is an Epic
Note: Agile Typically has 2- 3 levels of Requirements Hierarchy. One area that Agile is not mature in is the terms to name things larger than a story/pbi. Epic, Theme, Feature are used differently in various tools.
What home improvement initiative did Mark Lindberg/Dave Horstein use to create an Azure DevOps backlog?
Building a Deck
This work item type can be described as "unplanned work" that is needed to be completed in order to finish a PBI/User Story in a sprint?
What is Bug
Once the length of this has been determined and configurated it should not be changed so that the teams effectiveness can be analyzed over time and so that a level of predictability can be determined.
Hint: PBI/User Stories should be delivered in this timebox
What is the sprint timebox
What are some reasons why Agile Training recommends 1-6 weeks for a sprint versus standardizing all sprint duration? Differences in Technical Stacks, Integrations, Flow of Work to Done, lack of automation
What is Parent/ Child
This work item type is small enough to be built and tested into a sprint while still delivering Business Value
What is a PBI or User Story
PBI = Scrum Process Template
User Story = Agile Process Template. PBI's can be written in User Story Format
Who should be helping the product owner to understand the business value of backlog items?
Stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts, Process Engineers
This work item type makes up the majority of the Product Backlog items
What is PBI/User Stories
This group is for users who need to setup / configure the project in Azure Devops?
What is the Project Administrators
This field on the work item can be used for providing updates or requesting additional information?
What is the Discussion
What Work Item type will not need to have Acceptance Criteria?
A Task
Note: The task is complete when the acceptance passes on the story/PBI
How much time should be allocated for backlog refinement?
As much time as needed to maintain approximately 2 sprints worth of "Ready for Work" items .
The Refinement Meeting is typically conducted a minimum of once a week.
Recommended 2-3 times a week with the client. Once the team has a minimum of 2 sprints worth of Ready for Work Items, it can be reduced.
This work item makes up the majority of the Sprint Backlog
What is task
When setting up an Azure Devops Environment, what 3 components are needed in order for you to work on a teams backlog?
What is Organization, Project and Team access
This field contains the project and the sprint
What is the iteration path