Artifacts
It is constantly updated to reflect changes needed to optimize the Product.
What is the Product Backlog?
A lightweight framework that is simple to understand, but difficult to master.
What is Scrum?
The Development Team owns this event. It's a 15 minute time-box in which the Development Team inspects and adapts their daily plan to progress toward the Sprint Goal.
What is the Daily Scrum?
They facilitate the removal of impediments and ensure the Squad's events are facilitated. This does not indicate they "own" the Squad's events, nor are they solely responsible for impediments.
Who is the Scrum Master?
Is a mindset based on the manifesto (www.agilemanifesto.org). It is the ability to create, respond to change and succeed in a complex environment.
What is Agile?
It should include at least one priority Process Improvement Item from Sprint Retrospective to ensure continuous improvement.
What is the Sprint Backlog?
Transparency, Inspection, and Adaptation uphold any implementation of an Empirical process and therefore support Scrum.
What are the three Pillars?
This is when the team pulls work from the Product Backlog into the Sprint Backlog. During this event, the Development Team forecasts and determines the plan for accomplishing the Sprint Goal.
What is Sprint Planning?
The sole accountable individual responsible for the Product Backlog. This person ensures the ordering and/or prioritizing of the backlog and must be empowered to make product decisions.
Who is the Product Owner?
Scrum users must frequently inspect scrum artifacts and progress toward a Sprint Goal.
What is Inspection?
A unit of work which is small and understood well enough to be completed by a team during a Sprint.
What is a User Story or Product Backlog Item (PBI)?
An objective set for the Sprint that can be met through the implementation of the Sprint Backlog. It represents a higher order focus and priority for the Squad to anchor to throughout the Sprint.
What is the Sprint Goal?
The activity through which the Product Owner and the Development Team add granularity to the Product Backlog. It is used to add detail, estimates, and/or order to the items.
What is Backlog Refinement?
They do the work of delivering potentially releasable increments of Done product each sprint. Within this group, HR titles are not recognized and all members lend a hand when needed.
Who is the Development Team?
There are three different types of these: internal, external (possibly on other squads, teams, or a 3rd party vendor) or direction/decision.
What is a Dependency?
A forecast by the Development Team about what functionality is in the next increment and the work needed to deliver in support of the Sprint Goal.
What is the Sprint Backlog?
An iterative, incremental approach to optimize product, predictability, and control risk.
What is Scrum?
During this time-boxed event, the Squad inspects their team, relationships, processes, and tools. They create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint. It is an empirical moment and is focused on continuous improvement.
What is the Sprint Retrospective?
This person coaches the development team in self-organization, scrum theory, practices, rules and values.
Who is the Scrum Master?
Often the result of inspection It's an adjustment to the product or process in order to optimize value.
What is Adaptation?
The sum of all the Product Backlog items completed during a Sprint and the value of the increments of all previous Sprints.
What is the Increment?
It is the essence of the Value of the Sprint.
What is the Sprint Goal?
This contains all the work needed in support of the Sprint Goal. It consists of Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, the development, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
What is a Sprint?
This is the person who represents the customer. One of their responsibilities is to convey to the Squad what he/she wishes to build. They do this by leveraging the expertise of the Squad, SMEs and Stakeholders for feedback on technical quality and user experience in order to make the best decisions for product value.
Who is the Product Owner?
Significant aspects of the process must be visible to those responsible for the outcome.
What is Transparency?