Scrum Roles
This person facilitates agile ceremonies and ensures impediments are removed.
Who is a ScrumMaster?
The squad decides how to best work together to meet the squad's goals and takes ownership of the deliverables.
What is self-managing or self-organizing?
The process by which the squad reviews, modifies and estimates a user story.
What is grooming?
A timeboxed period (usually 2 weeks) where the squad collaboratively works towards a goal to deliver functionality to the customer.
What is the Sprint?
Based on Fibonacci sequence to give relative estimates of effort.
What are story points?
A squad member that develops code and constructs unit tests.
What is a developer?
1. What I did yesterday.
2. What I plan to do today.
3. Impediments?
What are statements provided during the standup?
Describes the requirement of functionality from an end-user perspective.
What is a user story?
Ceremony at the end of a sprint, where the squad discusses what went well and identifies improvements that can be made going forward.
What is a Retrospective?
An agreed upon set of requirements that a user story must adhere to for the squad to call it complete.
What is the definition of done?
This is the person ultimately responsible for the product. He/She sets the vision and prioritizes the backlog.
Who is the Product Owner?
Software development where a portion of the product is designed, implemented and tested.
What is incremental development?
A prioritized list of stories to be done in order to meet the end goal of a product. Typically managed by the Product Owner.
What is the Backlog?
Ceremony at the end of a sprint, where the squad shows their accomplishments to the Product Owner, Clients & other stakeholders.
What is the Sprint Demo / Review?
Criteria agreed upon by the squad to determine when a story is ready to be pulled into a sprint.
What is the definition of ready?
A squad member that is a liaison between Product & the development team.
Who is the Business Systems Analyst?
A group of people who collectively possess all the skills required to plan, execute and deploy a product.
What is a cross-functional team?
The number of story points that the squad can complete in a given sprint.
What is the Velocity?
A meeting that typically lasts less than 15 minutes, where the squad discusses their activities and blockers.
What is the Daily Standup?
Criteria specific to each user story, that must be met in order for the story to be complete. What the end user expects to see.
What is acceptance criteria?
A squad member that conducts system integration testing of functionality after unit testing is performed.
Who is a tester?
Anything that prevents the scrum team from meeting their potential and completing work.
What is an impediment?
Large chunks of work that is eventually broken down into user stories.
What is an Epic?
A ceremony at the beginning of the sprint, where the squad plans what can be accomplished in the next sprint.
What is Sprint Planning?
A technique of estimating user stories, by comparison or by grouping of items of equivalent difficulty.
What is relative estimation?