Agile History
An empirical framework used to break down complex projects into potentially shippable items.
What is the Scrum Framework?
This is usually 5-9 people is size.
What is the Scrum Team?
_____ is an approach to prioritizing features on a product roadmap based on the degree to which they are likely to satisfy customers.
What is KANO Model?
An ordered wish list
What is a product backlog?
Characteristics of a good Scrum Team.
What is self-managed and self-organized?
2 weeks
What is a sprint?
PSI or MVP
What is potentially shippable increment or minimal value product?
Average time for sprint planning in a two week sprint.
What is 2 hours?
Burndown chart
What is the amount of work that's left to be completed in the sprint?
Daily Scrum questions
What did you do today? What did you do yesterday? Impediments/ blockers?
linear process of project management
What is Waterfall Methodology?
This role has the greatest amount of overlap with the traditional project manager, is the person responsible for the health of the backlog (definition, refinement and prioritization).
What is the product owner?
The _____ method is a prioritization technique that has to do with what is more important to stakeholders and customers.
What is MOSCOW?
A large body of work to be completed during over >6 months
What are Epics?
At the beginning of a project the Product Owner is responsible for defining this. The Delivery Team should refer back to this often for reinforcement.
What is product goal?
At the end of development cycle the delivery team produces this.
What is Potentially Shippable Item/Increment? (PSI)
Phases of the SDLC.
What is requirement analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment and maintenance.
Vacation, holidays, PTO, organizational holidays
What are things that can impact capacity planning?
The average amount of work that has been completed during the sprint.
What is burn-up chart?
People and process
What is Sprint Retrospective?
a detailed plan describing how to develop, maintain, replace and alter or enhance specific software.
What is SDLC?
After the code is developed it is tested against the requirements to make sure that the product is actually solving the needs addressed and gathered during the requirement stage.
Who are UX/UI designers?
A bun, patty, login page, banking password...
What are Must Have items?
This is a set of criteria that needs to be fulfilled before a Team can begin coding and testing a user story.
What is the Definition of Ready?
A fixed, maximum unit of time for an activity
What is time boxing?
The acronym that summarizes the Scrum Framework.
3-5-3
Code peer reviewed? Code completed? Code reviewed? Code checked-in? Unit tests passed?
What are requirements for the DoD?
Outputs of sprint planning
What is sprint goal and sprint backlog?
Velocity
What is the average amount of work that can be completed during a sprint?
Stakeholders encouraged*
What is sprint review?
The beginning of the scrum alliance
February 2001
This is the role is that is most often understaffed or not staffed at all but has been identified as the biggest differentiator between a successful or unsuccessful agile implementation or delivery.
Who is the agile coach?
A restaurant offering free parking on site.
A car with a 5-year warranty, instead of 1 year.
An airline that offers double miles.
What are attractive requirements?
These replace business, functional, non-functional and technical requirements.
process control type in which only the past is accepted as certain and in which decisions are based on observation, experience and experimentation. _____ has three pillars: transparency, inspection and adaptation.
What is empiricism?
A ceremony Scrum teams use to Inspect and Adapt at the end of every development cycle. In Latin, this event means "Look back".
What is Sprint Retro?
Characteristics of a good user story.
What is independent, negotiable, valuable, estimable, small and testable?
2 Sprint planning anti-patterns
What are: overestimating capacity, no sprint goal, over estimation, over aggressive PO, over committing, no DoD, etc?
Work that is added once a sprint has been started.
What is unplanned work?
1. Icebreaker
2. Capacity Planning
3. Sprint Goal
4. Velocity
5. Estimation
6. Confidence Vote
What are the steps to an effective Sprint Planning?
Building an agile team.
What is storming, forming, norming, performing, adjourning?
Stakeholders, Agile Coach, Tech Leads, RTE
What are performance requirements?
See account balances.
See list of recent withdrawals or purchases.
See list of recent deposits.
See my upcoming automatic bill payments
See my account alerts.
What are features?
Scrum Artifact that defines the complete and valuable work produced by the Developers during a Sprint.
What is incremental?
This is not an official Scrum Ceremony.
What is Backlog Refinement?
Characteristics of a Product Backlog.
What is detailed, estimated, emergent, and prioritized? (DEEP)
Daily Double: 5 points
What is the effort for a weeks worth of work?
The time it takes to complete a task from beginning to end.
What is cycle time?
Sprint 0 and Backlog Refinement
What are unofficial sprint ceremonies?