Agile Framework & the Product
This long-term description of what the product should turn out to be helps Product Owners design the future-looking backlog items.
What is the Product Vision?
The person responsible for managing the product backlog and accountable for keeping it "healthy" at least 2 PIs out into the future.
Who is the Product Owner?
This work item represents a piece of work to be done.
What is a Product Backlog item?
It is the software solution where the ULA Product Backlogs are created.
What is Jira?
The work items that make up the "Team Backlog"
What are user-stories/tasks?
This is a high-level plan that outlines the product’s direction, focused on describing the program's timeline including milestones, releases, and increments.
What is a Product Roadmap?
This is the Product Owner's primary responsibility.
What is creating work plans (to maximize product value)?
It is the process of adding (or removing), detailing, estimating, and ordering to product backlog items.
What is the Product Backlog Refinement session?
It is how a Product Owner prioritizes items in the Product Backlog Management process.
What is a pre-established prioritization method (focused on business value)?
One describes a larger piece of functionality (intent) at the product level, while the other describes a specific activity that needs to be executed in order to create a part of the functionality.
What is the difference between an epic and a task?
This ordered list of everything that might be needed to build a product is the Product Owner's responsibility and they are the ones accountable for maintaining it "healthy".
What is a Product Backlog?
It is deciding what will be included in the product's intent (functionality) and ranking the product backlog items by using inputs from all stakeholders and methodically assessing the work items' priority.
What prioritizing the product backlog?
It is an ambitious yet attainable output that is planned to be accomplished within a Sprint.
What is a Sprint Goal?
Weighted-shortest job first (WSJF), Kano Model, Stacked Ranking, RICE (Reach, Impact, Confidence, Effort), and Value vs. Effort
What are examples of prioritization methods?
It is the Scrum Team's facilitator of flow and Servant-Leader.
Who is the Scrum Master?
These are independent, negotiable, valuable, estimable, small, testable, and actionable pieces of work that are created and completed by the Development Teams.
What is a Task/User-story?
Representing the customer and the stakeholders by linking the product strategy to the execution of the work.
What is been a "Linking Strategist"?
It is routinely scheduled event that focuses on inspecting (show & tell) the completed work done by the development team in a Sprint (and presented by them) with the stakeholders.
What is the Sprint Demo or Sprint Review?
Clear product vision, better transparency, effective inspection, faster adaptation, increased team alignment, and faster product delivery (time-to-market).
What are benefits of the Product Backlog Management process?
This is the queueing theory principle (or law) which states that the higher number of items "in progress" in a system, the longer it is going to take for that system to process the items in queue.
What is Little's Law?
This timeboxed activity represents the sum of all the product backlog items that are planned to be completed in a series of sprints.
What is a Program Increment (or PI)?
Going to the future of the program and back to the present to translate the product's strategy into features/epics that the Dev Teams can use to plan their tasks.
What is been a "Time-Traveler"?
It is an inspection of the sprint itself to identify improvements that development teams can do at the process level or at the ways of working level. Product Owner Teams can focus on their routines to find areas of improvement.
What is a team's Sprint Retrospective?
Scope creep (emergent work), changing priorities, dark work, incomplete work descriptions, absent definition of done or acceptance criteria, and inaccurate estimates.
What are obstacles to adequate prioritization?
It describes the minimum characteristics of a product with just enough working functionality to satisfy early needs and can be iteratively improved.
What is "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) a.k.a. First/Next Viable Product (F/NVP)?