Agile
An approach to project management that centers around incremental and iterative steps to completing projects
What is Agile
This person produces software, as well as estimating work efforts and sharing software delivery updates with the team
Who is the developer
Jira items created by developers that do not require any testing and can be closed by developers
What are tasks
A ceremony where discussion focuses around what developers did yesterday, what they will do today and if they have any blockers
What is Daily Stand-up
An agile project management framework that was initially created for software development.
What is Scrum
A thought process that involves understanding, collaborating, learning, and staying flexible to achieve high-performing results
What is the Agile mindset
This person identifies the customer needs and the larger business objectives that a product or feature will fulfill, acting as an overseer and connection point to stakeholders
Who is a product manager
Testable Jira items, created and refined by the team, that are worked by developers and must pass through QA and be accepted by the product owner before being closed
What are stories
A ceremony where items are created and discussed to make sure that all information is included and developers are clear with requirements
What is refinement
A visual project management framework focuses on task management and process improvement.
What is Kanban
Rather than a fixed mindset, Agile uses this different type of mindset to be able to embrace challenges, confront uncertainties and drive continuous learning
What is a Growth Mindset
This person ensures that the scrum framework is followed
Who is the scrum master
Jira items created by QA mainly to fix any defects
What are bugs
A ceremony where the team discusses work to be performed in upcoming sprint, assigns work and makes sure devs and QA are on same page
What is sprint planning
This is a mix of Scrum and Kanban, a great example of how you can build a project management framework by using elements from other frameworks or methodologies.
Competition, faster pace for change and scarce talent are a few examples of what?
What are drivers for change
This person tests stories to find bugs, create automated tests and contributes to refinement of items being developed, among other functions
Who is a QA tester
Anything acting as a hurdle for the delivery of a product
What is a blocker
A ceremony at the end of the sprint where the team demos work and stakeholders provide feedback
What is sprint review
This framework focuses on continuous process improvement, resource management and work management.
What is Lean
In 2001, this was created as a new form of project management to divert from the traditional waterfall methodology (cannot just say Agile as answer)
What is the Agile Manifesto
This is the ideal Agile team size
What is 5-7 people
Every two weeks, Jira work moves into these new iterations so that only work still needing to be done is visible
What are sprints
What is the retrospective
A traditional project management framework that consists of sequential project planning and execution
What is Waterfall