Agile Principles
This principle describes engagement visibility and establishes trust across all internal and external participants.
What is Transparency?
Folks who estimate the effort, develop and test software, and identify impediments.
What is the Scrum Team?
This usually lasts between 2-4 weeks.
What is a Sprint?
The format is as follows: Who?, What?, Why? and is used to gain an understanding of the buisness need.
What is a User Story?
Each day, all scrum team members meet briefly, 15 minutes or less, to explain to the other members what they worked on the previous day, what they're working on today and what impediments they have.
What is a Daily Stand-Up Meeting?
A scrum team is known as this if they have a high degree of autonomy and are responsible for the management of their own work.
What is Self Organizing?
Anyone who derives value out of deliverable(s) in the current cycle but are not part of the Scrum Team.
What is a Stakeholder?
The prioritized list of user stories the Scrum Team commits to working on during a specific iteration.
What is a Sprint Backlog?
Used to build out the Story Map, this is the high-level component, or defined area, of the product.
What is an Epic?
At the beginning of each sprint, the scrum team meets and determines what user stories will be developed and discuss any logistical issues that will influence the teams successful delivery of features chosen by the team.
What is Sprint Planning?
This agile principle allows for prioritization of risk and drives business value.
What is Flexible Scope?
This role has primary responsibility to continually help the team to grow in their agile adoption and practices. They may also schedule and facilitate sprint ceremonies for the team.
What is a Scrum Master?
The process of ranking the user stories.
What is User Story Prioritization?
Timebox during which an Agile Release Train delivers incremental value in the form of working, tested software and systems: typically 8 – 12 weeks long.
What is a Program Increment?
This is done once per sprint, where the Scrum Team, Scrum Master, and Product Owner update user stories, refine acceptance criteria, and review user stories for long range sprint planning.
What is User Story or Backlog Refinement?
When a user story has been completed to the satisfaction of the Product Owner and meets the objective of the audit with data driven results.
What is the Definition of Done?
This person escalates impediments, manages risk, helps ensure value delivery, and helps to drive relentless improvement. Many also participate in the Lean-Agile transformation, coaching leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in the new processes and mindsets.
What is a Release Train Engineer or a servant leader and coach for the Agile Release Train?
This highlights the associated risks and requirements to complete a specific user story.
What is Acceptance Criteria?
A collaborative practice that guides an agile team in the creation of their product backlog.
What is a Story Map?
These occur one time per sprint and bring together Subject Matter Experts to engage in an open feedback environment.
What is a Sprint Checkpoint?
Agile was born to provide an alternative to this project management approach.
What is Waterfall?
This role understands the value of the deliverables, helps to eliminate team impediments and is available to the scrum team in real time everyday.
What is a Product Owner?
Throughout the sprint the scrum team produces these with help from product owner, stakeholders and testers.
What is a Point of View?
An agile project management tool designed to help visualize work, limit work-in-progress, and maximize efficiency (or flow).
What is a Kanban Board?
At the end of each sprint, the scrum team meets to discuss what went well, what did not go well and what should be changed.
What is a Retrospective?