Agile 101
A fixed, maximum unit of time for an activity
What is Timeboxing?
Responsible for understanding customer's needs and communicating them to the team
What is the Product Owner?
Highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software
What is the 1st Agile Principle?
List of new features, changes to existing features, bug fixes, or other activities that a team may deliver in order to achieve a specific outcome.
What is a Product Backlog?
What did you do yesterday? What will you do today? Are there any impediments in your way?
What are the 3 scrum questions?
A brief document that outlines the 4 values and 12 principles of the Agile method.
What is the Agile manifesto?
Coach, leader, and facilitator that works for the team to improve productivity, remove obstacles, and resolve impediments.
Who is the Scrum Master?
Simplicity - Develop just enough to get the job done for right now.
What is the 10th Agile Principle?
Synthetic biographies of fictitious users of the future product
What is a Persona?
Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation
What are the three pillars of Scrum?
Scrum, Kanban, Scrum ban, Lean and XP
What are Agile frameworks?
Turns the requirements and creative designs into working software.
Who are the developers?
Frequent delivery of working software
What is the 3rd Agile Principle?
Estimation technique where each team member "plays" a card bearing a numerical value corresponding to a point estimation for a user story.
What is Planning Poker?
Control over the empirical process; Self organization; Collaboration; Value-based prioritization; Timeboxing; Iterative development
What are the key scrum basics?
The average of points from the last 3 to 4 sprints. Provides an idea of progress, capacity, etc..
What is Velocity?
Elicits and documents requirements and helps the team create user stories for the product backlog.
Who are the Business Analyst?
Regular reflections on how to become more effective
What is the 12th Agile Principle?
Evaluation of the effort necessary to carry out a given development task
What is an Estimate?
Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Increment
What are Scrum Artifacts?
A large body of work to be completed during development.
What is an Epic?
Resources from business or technical teams throughout the organizations
Who are Stakeholders or Subject Matter Experts?
Enable face-to-face interactions
What is the 6th Agile Principle?
The subset of product backlog that a team targets to deliver during a sprint in order to accomplish the spring goal and make progress toward a desired outcome.
What is a Sprint Backlog?
Daily standup, Sprint planning, Spring review, Spring retrospective, Product backlog refinement
What are the five types of Scrum meetings?