Scrum Roles
This person serves as the facilitator for the team, removing blockers and protecting the team from outside interference.
Who is the Scrum Master?
This high speed event usually lasts between 1-4 weeks.
What is a Sprint?
Texas Hold'em is a close cousin of this estimation tool.
What is Planning Poker?
This artifact provides a clear understanding of what an increment must deliver to be considered complete. It is used to assess when work is complete on the product Increment.
What is Definition of Done?
The practice of merging code changes into a shared repository several times a day.
What is Continuous Integration?
This person prioritises items in the Product Backlog to best achieve the goal and mission
Who is the Product Owner?
At the end of a sprint the team demos the functionality completed during the sprint.
What is the Sprint Review?
The format is as follows: As a [user type] I want [some feature] so that [business value]
What is a User Story?
The number of story points that the team can complete in a given sprint.
What is Velocity?
The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team.
What is a face to face conversation?
These are the people who enable the project and for whom the project will produce the agreed-upon benefit(s).
Who are Stakeholders?
A tool Scrum teams use to Inspect and Adapt at the end of every development cycle.
What is a Retrospective?
The prioritized list of user stories the Scrum team commits to working on during their Sprint.
What is the Sprint Backlog?
A very large story that takes multiple Program Increments to complete
What is an Epic?
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?
Helps the Product Owner to analyze, decompose and define Product Backlog Items.
What is the Cross Functional Team?
Meeting to understand the product owners next highest priority needs, and to estimate how much effort it will take in order to commit to the next sprint.
What is sprint planning?
A collection of features to implement the vision prioritized by business value.
What is the Product Backlog?
At the end of development cycle the delivery team produces this.
What is a Potentially Shippable Product?
This is the ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes.
What is Continuous Improvement?
Provides daily status updates to the Project Manager
No One! The team gives updates to each other and plans out the day at Daily Standup/Scrum meeting, calling out any impediments
Creates and updates the Sprint Backlog, Burndown Chart and Task Board.
What is the Cross Functional Team?
Depicts the total task hours remaining and shows a quick visual on whether you are on track to deliver by the end of the sprint.
What is the Sprint Burndown chart?
A delivery team is know as this if they have a high degree of autonomy and are responsible for the management of their own work.
What is a Self-Organising Team?
Daily double: Story A is #23 in the backlog Story A is rated a 3 points There are currently 79 points ahead of Story A The velocity of the team is 27 When will story A likely be completed?
Strictly by velocity and an unchanged prioritised backlog, early in the 4th sprint...
Numerous factors can change this over a 3 sprint period though