Scrum-Smells
Ceremonies
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Agile Values
Agile Principles
100

Non-team members take over or actively participate in the Stand Up

What are 'Talking Chickens'

100

This is the ceremony that enables the team to constantly improve. Without it, teams can become stagnant.

What is the retrospective?

100

Another word for research

What is a Spike?

100

This is valued more than Processes and tools in Agile.

What is Individuals & Interactions?

100

This is the number of Agile Principles.

What is 12?

200

The team's functional managers swoop in to the daily standup to check on work status or provide new work for the team (that wasn't pulled in during Sprint Planning).

What is Seagulled?

200

This ceremony is used to ensure that the backlog is full and that the team has stories that are ready.

What is Backlog Grooming?

200

Individuals & interactions over processes and tools. 

Working software over comprehensive documentation. 

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation. 

Responding to change over following a plan.

What is the Agile Manifesto?

200

This is valued more over following a plan.

What is Responding to Change?

200

The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team.

What is face to fact conversation?

300

Team members wait to update progress during the standup meeting

What are Stinky Updates?

300

Team determines which stories the team will do in that sprint.

What is Sprint Planning?

300

Name two forms of Agile.

What are Scrum & Kanban?

300

This is valued more over Comprehensive Documentation.

What is Working Software?

300

The number one Agile Principle is to...

What is Satisfy the Customer?

400

 This person dominates conversation causing others not to speak or defer to their opinion

What is Gorilla in the Room?

400

From Latin for look back.

What is Retrospective?

400

Term used to describe how much work a team can get done within a given time-box.

What is velocity?

400

Name one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto.

Who are 

Kent Beck
Mike Beedle
Arie van Bennekum
Alistair Cockburn
Ward Cunningham
Martin Fowler
James Grenning
Jim Highsmith
Andrew Hunt
Ron Jeffries
Jon Kern
Brian Marick
Robert C. Martin
Steve Mellor?
Ken Schwaber
Jeff Sutherland
Dave Thomas

400

The primary measure of progress.

What is Working Software.

500

A team implements Scrum, but they decide to ditch Sprint reviews. Or a team adopts scrum, but doesn't hold Retrospectives.

What is Scrum-but?

500

This optional ceremony is for Scrum Masters to discuss dependencies and to escalate impediments to leadership

What is Scrum of Scrums?

500

A set of statements, each with a clear pass/fail result used to identify if a story is done or not.

What is Acceptance Criteria?

500

This is valued more over Contract Negotiation.

What is Customer Collaboration?

500

Agile processes promote sustainable development.

How long should this be maintained?

Indefinitely

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