Agile
What are the four values of the Agile Manifesto?
Each person speaks to their work in the framework "Yesterday, Today, and Impediments"
What is the daily scrum or stand up?
Self-assigns and self-organizes completion of the work
Who is the team?
The measurement in weeks of how much work is ready to begin.
What is a backlog health?
The three parts of a user story
What is "As a...", "I want", and "So that"?
Pass all these and the user story is probably ready for review by the product owner.
What are Acceptance Criteria?
In this ceremony the team commits to their work for the upcoming sprint
What is Sprint Planning?
Coaches the team, team leaders and stakeholders on following the agile processes
Continually works with the team and leaders to remove impediments, risks, and dependencies
Leads the team through growth in their agile maturity and productivity
Who is the Agile delivery lead?
The measure of the number of stories worked during the sprint that were not committed at outset of sprint.
What is unplanned work?
The first seven digits of the Fibonacci Sequence.
What is 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21?
The act of continuously doing whatever helps to become better, and thus be more valuable
What is continuous improvement?
In the unofficial ceremony the team collaborates with the Product owner, asking questions and clarifying the work needed and making sure it is prioritized according to the business value
What is backlog grooming or refinement?
The ‘single voice’ on product features, business intent, and scope
Contributes to and communicates the product vision and release goals
Continually refines and prioritizes the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions
Ensures team understands the business value behind the items in the Product Backlog
Accepts or rejects work results
Who is the product owner?
The measure of how predictable our rate of delivery is, which allows for more reliable forecasts during planning.
What is Throughput variance?
Usually a collection of user stories for a desired functionality
What is a feature?
The tool we use to visualize the team workflows.
What is Jira?
In this ceremony, the team comes together to discuss and consider what went well and what could be improved in their process
What is Retrospective?
These interested parties are responsible for helping the product owner align the team deliverables with the overall company needs.
Who are the stakeholders?
The aim for this metric is less than or equal to 45 days.
What is feature cycle time?
The constraints on how many work items are actively being worked on at any given time
What is the WIP Limit? (Works in progress)
The tool we use to plan features and to escalate risks, impediments, and dependencies
What is Jira Align?
In this ceremony, the team presents their working software for the stakeholders and others and shows the product increment they have delivered.
What is Demo?
Daily Double: This person oversees the agile process for the group of several teams working together as an ART (Agile Release Train).
Who is the RTE (Release Train Engineer)?
The target for the metric of committed stories delivered. A measure of the number of stories committed to at the beginning of a sprint compared to the number of those stories accepted by the end of the sprint.
What is greater than or equal to 80%?
The four stages of team maturity
What are forming, storming, norming, and performing?