The Agile Team
The Scrum Team consists of......
Who are the Product Owner, Development Team, and Scrum Master
Complete the statement..."while there is value in the items on the right,....."
What is "...we value the items on the left more."
This is a brief, simple requirement statement from the perspective of the user
What is a User Story
The event that "kicks" off the current sprint and has the group commit to a group of stories
What is Sprint Planning
This recurring meeting involves the agile team and should answer three basic questions
What is the Daily Standup?
The optimal development team size is anywhere in this range. Any less decreases interactions and results in less productivity; and more requires too much coordination.
What is 3 to 9.
This over Contract Negotiation
What is Customer Collaboration
Usually a collection of related user stories for a desired functionality
What is a Feature
The maximum capacity amount of hours per day for a team member
What is six
This number can be a range of expected work output
What is Velocity
The four stages of team maturity
What are Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing
Responding to Change over..
What is Following a Plan
Pass all these and the user story is nearly "done"
What is Acceptance Criteria
This activity creates all the necessary components to complete a story
What is task breakdown
This chart tracks the hours of effort remaining on each task by day as well as the number of story points accepted
What is the Sprint Burndown Chart
Teams are intended to be this - so they can complete a variety of projects
What is Cross-functional
Processes and Tools, while valuable, but not over these...
What are Individuals and Interactions
A task (or story) aimed at answering a question or gathering information, rather than at producing shippable product
What is a Spike
Who defines what "done" means?
Who is the team.
This is the goal of every sprint
What is a potentially shippable increment of functionality
Agile teams are made this by the organization - so they can organize and manage their own work
What is structured and empowered
This is valued over Comprehensive Documentation and is also our primary measure of progress
What is Working Software
This acronym guideline should be followed when writing user stories
What is INVEST
This is the set of Product Backlog items selected for the Sprint, plus a plan for delivering the product Increment and realizing the Sprint Goal. It is managed by the team during the sprint.
What is the Sprint Backlog
This behavior, similar to multitasking, should be avoided because it actually reduces productivity
What is Context Switching (or Task Switching)