Agile Roles
Who is responsible for the product backlog?
Product Owner
Which metric is used to calculate the time taken by the team to finish a task, once the team starts working on it?”
With cycle time, you can measure how many hours/days someone actively worked on a task to complete it. This allows you to track the duration of all the work items in a project and eventually use that as an input to make better forecasts for project completion. As opposed to lead time, you can think of cycle time as the "team timeline".
What are the 2 most common agile frameworks?
How many agile ceremonies are there in Scrum?
5
*Product Backlog Refinement
*Sprint Planning
*Daily Stand Up
*Iteration Review or Demo
*Retrospective
What is the document that is the 'holy grail' for agile?
The Agile Manifesto
Who's main responsible is driving continuous improvement within the team?
Scrummaster
What is a metric that shows you the total time (including wait time) a work item spends in the entire process from the moment it is requested to the time it is delivered.
Lead Time
To give an example, let's say that a customer of yours has requested a service or a feature. From the moment you commit until delivery, lead time starts accumulating, even if you haven't started working on it yet. An easy way to think of lead time is the "customer timeline".
What are short requirements or requests written from the perspective of an end user called?
User Stories
What is the ceremony about demonstrating the hard work of the entire team: designers, developers, and the product owner.
Iteration Review/Sprint Review/Demo
How many principles are in the Agile Manifesto?
12
Who is responsible for estimating story points for user stories?
The development team.
The scrummaster and PO are not 'doing' the work, therefore, they should not be estimating.
The development team can be comprised of all kinds of people including application developers, testers, designers, writers, programmers, etc.
What is the metric that measures the average number of work items processed per unit of time.
Throughput;
In a Kanban system, as work is visualized in cards, throughput is measured based on how many Kanban cards were finished in a given period (weekly, monthly, etc.)
Many teams believe that throughput is pretty much another word for productivity in Agile. While they are very close, throughput measures how many work items teams can complete in a specific time frame, while productivity is more about how efficient they are.
How many scrum roles are there?
3
-Product Owner
-Scrum Master
-Development Team
What is the max amount of time a daily standup should be?
15 minutes
In what year was the Agile Manifesto created?
On February 11-13, 2001, at The Lodge at Snowbird, Utah, seventeen people met to talk, ski, relax, and try to find common ground. What emerged was the Agile 'Software Development' Manifesto.
Who is responsible for defining the vision, managing the product backlog, prioritizing work based on value, and evaluating product progress each iteration?
Product Owner.
What does CFD stand for? It is a graphical representation of your WIP flow in Kanban and is borrowed from LeanSixSigma.
Cumulative Flow Diagram
A CFD helps you understand the state of your work in progress and analyzes the stability of your workflow - the entry and exit rate of your work items.
What you will see on a CFD are color blocks that represent the work stages on your board, and the width of those blocks represents the number of stories in it.
What is the event in scrum that kicks off the sprint?
Sprint Planning.
The purpose of sprint planning is to define what can be delivered in the sprint and how that work will be achieved. Sprint planning is done in collaboration with the whole scrum team.
What is the ceremony that focuses on reflecting on the past events to improve the future?
There are 4 values in the Agile Manifesto.
One of them reads, "__________ __________ over comprehensive documentation"
Who is responsible for using the daily standup to “inspect and adapt” as they work to achieve the sprint goal?
The development team
Why is measuring Work in Progress (WIP) so important?
A WIP board keeps track of work started but not finished yet and represents sunk costs. This also results in multitasking, which hinders the team's throughput.
Agile teams look to limit their work in progress, which ensures that any started work will be finished ASAP, and thus the team's throughput will rise. Limiting work in progress has a positive effect on cycle time by decreasing it.
Note: You can also set corresponding limits on your work stages to ensure that only a certain amount of tasks can reside in every Kanban column.
What is the purpose of a sprint?
"Sprints make projects more manageable, allow teams to ship high-quality work faster and more frequently, and gives them more flexibility to adapt to change."
What is the product backlog?
a prioritized list of work for the development team that is derived from the roadmap and its requirements. The most important items are shown at the top of the product backlog so the team knows what to deliver first.
Name 2 of the 5 agile values.
commitment, focus, openness, respect, and courage