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" 2-3 Sprints 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 BCLC software solution where 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 to maximize product value?
It is the process of adding (or removing), detailing, estimating, and ordering to product backlog items.
What is Backlog Refinement?
It is how a Product Owner can value and prioritize items in the Backlog.
What is WSJF (Weighted Shortest Job First)?
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?
A pre-work checklist that ensures the team understands the scope of work, has the necessary information, and can realistically complete the task within the sprint
What is Definition of Ready (DoR)?
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 Delivery Teams.
What is a User Story/ Task?
A measure of the amount of work a team generally does in a single sprint, used in planning to forecast the teams potential output.
What is velocity?
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 Review?
Clear product vision, better transparency, effective inspection, faster adaptation, increased team alignment, and faster product delivery (time-to-market).
What are the benefits of Backlog Management?
It describes the minimum characteristics of a product with just enough functionality to satisfy early customer needs (and will be iteratively improved).
What is "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP)
This timeboxed activity of breaking down projects, product goals and strategies into smaller pieces for near-term delivery over a series of Sprints.
What is a Quarterly Planning ?
Envisions the future of the product and maps it back to the present to visualize the product's evolution.
Who is Product Owner?
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 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?
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?