Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
What are Scrum Values?
100
This person facilitates team decisions and ensures impediments are removed.
Who is the ScrumMaster?
100
In 2001, several software industry leaders gathered at Snowbird ski resort and published this document describing a now famous approach to software development.
What is the Agile Manifesto?
100
This high speed event usually lasts between 2-4 weeks.
What is a Sprint?
100
A consensus-based, gamified technique for estimating, mostly used to estimate effort or relative size of development goals in software development.
What is Planning Poker?
200
This principle describes project visibility and establishes trust among all project participants.
What is Transparency?
200
This is usually 5-9 people is size.
What is the Development Team?
200
This is the primary measure of progress for an Agile development team.
What is Working Software?
200
The prioritized list of user stories the Development Team commits to working on during a 2-4 week development cycle.
What is the Sprint Backlog?
200
The format is as follows:
As a
I want to
so that
What is a User Story?
300
A Development 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?
300
Typically a project's key stakeholder. Has a vision of what he or she wishes to build, and conveys that vision to the scrum team.
Who is the Product Owner?
300
This is the ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes.
What is Continuous Improvement?
300
Daily standing status meeting.
What is the Daily Scrum?
300
A simple statement that provides a coherent direction of the desired future state of a product on developing and deploying it in Scrum.
What is the Product Vision?
400
A Development Team is known as this if they are comprised of team members who have all the skills necessary to complete their work.
What is Cross Functional?
400
These are the people who enable the project and for whom the project will produce the agreed-upon benefit(s).
What are Stakeholders?
400
The 2002 Standish Group study reported on 20% of features are used "often" or "always." This is a key reason why Agile projects focus on this.
What is Business Value?
400
A tool Scrum teams use to Inspect and Adapt at the end of every development cycle.
What is a Retrospective?
400
A collection of features to implement the vision prioritized by business value.
What is the Product Backlog?
500
Retrospectives are a Scrum practice that fulfills this Scrum Principle.
What is Inspect & Adapt?
500
These people are not fully committed to the project but do make contributions to the project.
What are chickens?
500
Waterfall projects have fixed requirements and usually negotiate Cost and Schedule. Agile projects negotiate this.
What is Scope?
500
At the end of a development cycle, the Development Team produces this.
What is a Potentially Shippable Product?
500
The number of story points that the team can complete in a given sprint.