Kanban
What Kanban ceremony do we pull new items into the workflow and prioritize?
Replenishment meeting
What ceremony is held at the end of the sprint to give feedback on what went well and what didn't go well?
What time does the sprint close and open on the final day of planning week (Thursday)
Closes at 8 AM
Opens at 5 PM
What should we remind our teams to do when moving a ticket OUT of blocked?
Remove blocked fields (Blocked by, blocked date, blocked reason)
_______ and _________ over processes and tools
Individuals and interactions
What is the engineering managers role in the Daily Stand up?
Answer questions and provide updates
Who is responsible to break down stories into smallest pieces of value?
The team
Who is the audience for SoS vs Blocker Review?
SoS- Infrastructure SM
Blocker Review - Infrastructure SM and Application Team SM
What is the JIRA hierarchy? Largest -> Smallest
Initiative
Epic
Story/bug/spike/etc
Respond to change OVER _____________
following a plan
How frequent should the Service Delivery Review take place?
Biweekly
What is the outcome of sprint planning?
Sprint Goal is defined
Backlog of team's commitment
What does ROAM stand for?
Resolved, Owned, Accepted, Mitigated
True/False - When a story is NOT started and the sprint finishes, you should remove the sprint BEFORE the sprint closes.
FALSE - Let the sprint close and roll to the next sprint
True/False On the agile manifesto, we value the items on the right more than the left.
FALSE - That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more
Who facilitates the replenishment meeting?
Engineer manager/Tech led, architect
What are the 4 required scrum ceremonies?
Sprint planning, Daily Stand up, sprint review/demo, and sprint retrospective
What 3 things should Scrum masters speak to at the Management Review at end of quarterly planning week?
Objectives/OKRs
Risks
Dependencies
Fix version - Used for code control/management
Name 2 scaled agile frameworks
1) Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
2) Large Scale Scrum (leSS)
3) Nexus
4) Scrum @ Scrum (SaS)
5) Disciplined Agile (DA)
6) Enterprise Kanban
What are the 3 values of Kanban?
Focus, decrease waste, customer needs first
What does it mean to normalize velocity?
or every full time team member, give them 8 points per sprint, adjust for part timers. Deduct 1 point for every vacation and/or holiday.
Moving forward, what type of objective should all teams have? Give 1 example of a KR for that objective.
"Keep the business running"
Examples: Patches up to date, N-1, vulnerability, tech debt, etc
What are the time boxes for the 3 different levels of work items in JIRA?
Initiative - Larger than 1 quarter
Epic - Bigger than 1 sprint; Smaller than 1 quarter
Story - Smaller than 1 sprint
What year was the agile manifesto written?
2001