Scrum Roles
This person facilitates team decisions and ensures impediments are removed.
Who is the ScrumMaster?
Texas Hold'em is a close cousin of this estimation tool.
What is Planning Poker?
This high speed event usually lasts between 2-4 weeks.
What is the Sprint?
Borrowing the concept of scrum from this game, the agile approach to software development uses a scrum framework to effectively manage product development
What is Rugby?
A group of collaborators, typically between five and nine individuals, who work toward completing projects and delivering products.
What is a Development Team?
The format is as follows: As a ___ I want to ___ so that ___.
What is a User Story?
A tool Scrum teams use to Inspect and Adapt at the end of every development cycle.
What is a Retrospective?
One of the three pillars of scrum, dictating that everyone involved is open and honest in their daily interactions with others, including the customer, the CEO, and individual contributors. They all have confidence in one another and the courage to inform one another of both good and bad news.
What is is Transparency?
This is the person ultimately responsible for the product. He/She sets the vision and prioritizes the backlog.
Who is the Product Owner?
A collection of features to implement the vision that are prioritized by business value.
What is the Product Backlog?
At the end of a sprint the team demonstrates the product at this meeting.
What is the Sprint Demo & Review?
One of the three pillars of scrum, where together, the team identifies any unforeseen variances from the sprint plan and make arrangements for their review.
What is is Inspection?
These are the people who enable the project and for whom the project will produce the agreed-upon benefit(s).
Who are the Stakeholders?
The number of story points that the team can complete in a given sprint.
What is the Velocity?
A daily meeting to discuss progress and identify blockers.
What is the Daily Standup or Daily Scrum?
One of the three pillars of scrum that refers to continuous improvement, the capacity to adjust based on inspection results. Everyone in the organization must regularly ask, "Are we better off today than yesterday?"
What is is Adaptation?