PO's, SM's & RTE's, Oh My!
ABC's of TFS
SAFe at Home
Mental State
Meet & Greet
100
This person facilitates team meetings, enforces scrum principles/methods, and removes impediments.
Who is the "Scrum Master"?
100
This TFS tool shows the set of committed tasks for the current sprint -- by Team Member or by Backlog item views.
What is the "Storyboard"?
100
The recurring periods of work that make up a PSI are called this.
What is a "Sprint" or "Iteration"?
100
To Do, In Progress, and Done.
What are “the three states of a task”?
100
This Agile meeting takes place once every 10 weeks, and provides insight into areas that require improvement or modification.
What is the "Inspect & Adapt" meeting?
200
This person facilitates team meetings, enforces scrum principles/methods, and removes impediments.
Who is the “Product Manager”?
200
These two fields should be updated after spending time working on a task.
What are “Remaining and Completed Hours” fields?
200
This person authored 'Agile Requirements', 'Scaling Software Agility', and founded the Scaled Agile Framework.
Who is “Dean Leffingwell”?
200
After acceptance of their POI, the team should update all of the Features on the POI to this State in TFS.
What is “Approved”?
200
This meeting allows the teams to showcase and discuss the completed work to be released to various interested parties.
What is the “Demo Fair“?
300
This person represents the stakeholder and customer community (acts as the “voice of the customer”) to the team.
Who is the “Product Owner”?
300
At the end of this meeting, you should update the Original Estimate and Remaining Hours fields in TFS.
What is the “Sprint Planning” meeting?
300
In SAFe, the process or system through which Epics are managed.
What is “Kanban”?
300
The person who has the authority to change the PBI state from New to Approved.
Who is the “Product Manager or Product Owner”?
300
A program-level face-to-face event that includes presentation of vision, team planning breakouts, and commitment to release objectives.
What is “PSI Planning or Release Planning”?
400
This person facilitates program level execution and events, manages risk, and drives program-level continuous improvement.
Who is the “Release Train Engineer”?
400
To have your tasks display on your TFS team board, you must correctly set the Iteration Path and this field.
What is the “Team” field?
400
It provides a view of the intended deliverables such as Features and, Epics, over a timeline of 3-12 months.
What is the “Roadmap”?
400
When the team agrees to work on a story during Sprint Planning, the story should be set to this state.
What is “Committed”?
400
A scrum ceremony where the team demonstrates the results of the work done in the iteration.
What is the “Sprint Demo or Team Demo”?
500
They are responsible for estimating, committing to, and delivering work.
Who is the “Scrum Team”?
500
Stakeholders use this field to see if an item is part of the current PSI plan.
What is the “Iteration Path”?
500
One of the four core values of SAFe.
What is “Code Quality, Program Execution, Alignment, or Transparency”?
500
At the end of a sprint, all planned stories should either be moved to a different Iteration path, or set to one of these states.
What is “Done or Removed”?
500
This Agile meeting takes place once every 2 weeks, and provides team insight into areas that require improvement or modification.
What is the "Sprint Retrospective" meeting?
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