estimation and sizing
A tool for estimating backlog items, but no chips are required.
What is planning poker?
In the product backlog, this item is the smallest unit of value.
What is a user story?
Role that maximizes product value.
Who is the product owner.
These 8 legged arthopods have never sliced a story, but Mike Cohn wrote this acronym in their honor.
What is the story splitting technique - SPIDR?
This pattern has little in common with agility, and has phase gates like analysis, design, development and testing.
What is waterfall?
What is relative estimation or relative sizing?
"enable users to manage their finances through a mobile app" is an example of this vision fulfilling concept.
What is a product goal?
The scrum guide and LeSS state this numeric value is ideal number of product owners per product.
What is "One Product owner per product"?
Who is the Persona?
What is the retrospective?
Who are the developers?
This scrum event is critical to measuring the outcome of the iteration and generates feedback and adjustments to the backlog.
What is sprint review?
This servant leader role is accountable for establishing scrum and coaching the team to improve its effectiveness, just don't ask them to be your secretary.
Who is the scrum master?
In the INVEST Model for good user stories, this vowel ensures the team can size the story.
What is E?
This role is responsible for quality and completeness of the work in the sprint increment.
who are the developers?
This sequence named for a rabbit studying scientist is a popular way to size backlog items.
Who is Fibonnaci?
What is empirical process?
While not part of the scrum team, these individuals are actively engaged during the sprint review to provide feedback and help ensure the product delivers value.
Who are the stakeholders?
When a backlog item is too large: this refinement technique should be employed. Also is popular sundae made with bananas.
What is splitting stories?
The product owner and developers co-create this iteration based artifact in a 2-4 hour planning session.
What is the sprint increment? The sprint goal isn't an official artifact.
Instead of estimating in hours, many agile teams use these instead, but don't use them to measure value.
What are points?
This commitment guides the scrum team's work during a sprint, providing a shared objective and focuses the team on delivering valuable outcomes.
What is a sprint goal?
These leaders secretly wish they could join the scrum team, but they will need to roll their sleeves up and contribute to the product increment as a developer and leave this title behind.
Who is the manager or tech lead?
In the 2020 scrum guide, there are three artifacts, this artifact is a growing or emergent prioritized list of everything we need to reach our product goal.
What is the product backlog?
Some teams count on their manager to assign them the work, and haven't discovered this "powerful" alternative to top down management.
What are empowered development teams? (self-directed works too)