The Agile Team
Software development method that focuses on iterative, incremental and small rapid releases of software
Agile
What color will the user story be marked when the Story is ready for testing to begin
Pink
What is the duration of an Iteration
2 weeks
What is the unit for the estimation of total efforts for a given user story
Story Point
The number of story points that the team can complete in a given iteration or release cycle
Velocity
Who is responsible for grooming Stories and prioritizing the Release Backlog
Development Team
What color will the user story be marked when the Story is Ready for deployment to Stage (testing completed)
Orange
What is CRM
Customer Relationship Mgmt
This creates a common understanding of what is meant when the Team says that a Product Backlog item is "Done"
Definition of Done
Who are the 2 newest folks on our team?
Adam and Varada
Teams use this ceremony to Inspect and Adapt at the end of every iteration/development cycle
Retrospective
What is the max # of task hours that should be appended to each task in a user story
6
What is the duration of a Release
3 months
an Automatic technique where the tester writes scripts and uses suitable software to test the software
Automation Testing
What do these behaviors describe a team mate to be: Passionate, Selfless, and Accountable ?
PSA Core Values
What are the 4 most important ceremonies in Scrum
Backlog Grooming, Stand Up, Iteration Review, Retrospective
What 3 backlogs do user stories go into in Rally
Product, Release, Iteration Backlogs
A user story meets specific conditions the team defined and the team determines that it is ready to be pulled into an iteration
Definition of Ready
This ceremony "kicks" off the current iteration and has the group commit to a group of stories
Backlog Grooming
When an issue is reported from the field what Phone # should they call to have a ticket created by ITHD?
866-523-5333
Who is responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Product Backlog
Product Owner
What type of ticket do we open for configuration change that will go to production outside of a release or for a scheduled production release
Cherwell
Who defines when a story is Ready, Done, and Done done
Team
A card based technique used for planning and estimation
Planning Poker
What is the new version of the SRF commonly called RR in Siebel?
Runtime Repository
What are fictional characters, which you create based upon your research in order to represent the different user types that might use your service, product, site, or brand in a similar way
Personas
Which automated pipeline updates the milestones for a story in Rally
Jenkins
A culture that allows development and the operations team to work together. Results include continuous dev, testing, integration, deployment, monitoring through the life cycle
DevOps
a set of automated processes that allow Developers and DevOps professionals to reliably and efficiently compile/rebase, build and deploy their code to their production platforms
DevOps Pipeline
a method to frequently deliver apps to customers by introducing automation into the stages of app development. The main concepts include continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment
CI/CD
This recurring meeting involves the entire team and should answer 3 basic questions
Stand Up
When an automation story is signed off and accepted what color is the story marked in Rally?
Green
Plan, Code, Build, Test, Integrate, Deploy, Operate, Monitor; what life cycle?
Phases of DevOps
Out of the 4 values of the agile manifesto which is the most important?
4; responding to change is more important than following a plan. Teams should always prioritize being agile and delivering fast over following a plan.
What are the PSA values here at AA?
Passionate, Selfless, Accountable
What are the 3 "Scrum" Agile Pillars?
transparency, inspection and adaptation
When completing tasks on an Accepted story what should I remember to do?
Re- Accept the user story
What is IRR
Incremental Run Time Repository
While developing a story during the iteration, the team discovered a new task that was not identified earlier. The newly discovered task will take long enough that it cannot be completed during the iteration. What is the MOST appropriate action the team should perform?
Discuss the situation with the product owner and see if there is still a way to meet the iteration goals, may need to reduce the functionality of a story or drop one entirely.
is the act of consciously and systematically convening with one's fellow programmers to check each other's code for mistakes, and has been repeatedly shown to accelerate and streamline the process of software development like few other practices can
Code Review
What are these called: and which is valued more?
Agile Manifesto; Items on the left are the most important
When should I enter my tasks on my user story?
On or before the iteration starts
True/False
Loyalty is the online version of Soleil where customers can purchase ODP's and Memberships?
False; eLoyalty
A Spike is best described
as a brief learning period
What languages can Selenium be used with?
Java, C#, Ruby, Python, PHP, Pearl
How many Principals are in Agile?
12
When planning tasks out for ad hoc work; what task hours should not be included?
Tasks for Meetings
The technique used to analyze the flow of information and materials through a system to assist in identifying and eliminating waste is
Value Stream Mapping
What flexes in an agile environment?
Scope
The amount of value that the team delivers during an iteration is called?
Velocity