Agile Principles
Agile Principles focusing on validated learning try get rid of these significant development risks as quickly as possible with stakeholder feedback.
What are assumptions?
The empowered central point of product leadership who defines what to do and in what order to do it and represents the single voice of the stakeholder community.
Who is the Product Owner?
This refers to the idea that a sprint has a defined start and end date that will not change.
What is timeboxed?
The prioritized inventory of yet-to-be-worked-on user stories.
What is PBL? (product backlog)
A lightweight agile framework for managing complex product and service development, named with a term borrowed from the sport of rugby.
What is Scrum?
Based on Agile, measure this by what gets delivered and validated, rather than conformity with a predefined plan.
What is Progress?
The coach, facilitator, impediment remover, and servant leader of the Scrum team, who provides process leadership for the Scrum approach.
Who is the ScrumMaster?
A characteristic of sprints that reminds about the importance of staying committed to the sprint goal.
What is "no goal altering changes"?
Criteria used to evaluate user story quality, including the notion of worth to end users and the approximation of effort needed to bring to fruition.
What is INVEST? (Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimatable, Sized appropriately(small), and Testable)
The activities of writing and refining, estimating, and prioritizing product backlog items.
What is grooming?
Performance-related Agile Principles include: "go fast but never hurry" and avoiding either of two things.
What is 1) anything beyond minimally sufficient ceremony, or 2) work that adds no economic value.
An inspect-and-adapt activity that occurs after a sprint end date, where the Scrum team shows all interested parties what was accomplished during the sprint, allowing input on what has been built so far and adapting what will be built next.
What is the Sprint Review?
A checklist of conditions that must be true before a product backlog item is considered ready to pull into a sprint during sprint planning.
What is the Definition of Ready?
Criteria used to evaluate the quality of a product backlog, helping us remember how to order PBIs and to expect they'll never stop appearing, among other things.
What is DEEP? (appropriately Detailed, Emergent, Estimated, and Prioritized)
Results that are completed to a high degree of confidence and represent work of good quality, appropriate for release to end customers at the end of a sprint if that business decision makes sense.
What is a potentially shippable product?
More important than idle workers, identifying this type of cost of delay is an important Agile Principle related to WIP.
What is idle work?
A convenient format for expressing the desired business value for many types of product backlog items, crafted in a way that makes them understandable for both business people and technical people. They provide a great placeholder for a conversation.
What is a user story?
A checklist of the types of work that the team is expected to successfully complete by the end of the sprint, which ensures delivery of a complete slice of product functionality (designed, built, integrated, tested, and documented) that will deliver validated customer value.
What is the Definition of Done?
Visible in the Sprint Backlog, efforts that have entered the development process but are not yet finished and available to a customer or user.
What is WIP? (work in process)
To disaggregate, in a just-in-time fashion, large, lightly detailed product backlog items into a set of smaller, more detailed items.
What is progressive refinement?
To leverage variability and uncertainty inherent in creating innovative solutions, Agile encourages these development strategies, which mean "planning rework in multiple passes" and "building some of it before you build all of it."
What is iterative and incremental development?
An inspect-and-adapt activity performed at the end of every sprint which is a continuous improvement opportunity for a Scrum team to review its approach to performing Scrum and to identify opportunities to improve.
What is a Sprint Retrospective?
A measure of the rate at which work is completed per unit of time, focusing on output (the size of what was delivered), not outcome (the value of what was delivered).
What is velocity?
A strategy of not making a premature decision but instead delaying commitment and keeping important and irreversible decisions open until the cost of not making a decision becomes greater than the cost of making a decision.
What is LRM (last responsible moment)?
In contrast to Agile, this approach strives to eliminate all requirements uncertainty prior to development, resulting in change being very expensive and disruptive in later phases.
What is a Plan-Driven (or Waterfall) approach?