Agile Principles
This principle focuses on the art of maximizing the amount of essential work being done.
What is Simplicity?
This chart helps everyone see how much work is left in the Sprint.
What is a Burndown Chart?
This ceremony kicks off each Sprint and is where the team decides what work they will complete in the coming Sprint.
What is Sprint Planning?
This role helps the team stay on track with Agile practices, often without any formal authority, and acts as a shield from external interruptions.
Who is the Scrum Master?
This technique is used to estimate the size of a user story in the backlog, often involving the entire team.
What is Planning Poker?
This Agile principle emphasizes the importance of delivering functional software to customers frequently, with a preference for a shorter timescale
What is Continuous Delivery?
Teams use this list to know what features to work on next.
What is a Product Backlog?
This short, daily meeting is for the development team to synchronize activities and create a plan for the next 24 hours.
What is the Daily Stand-Up or Daily Scrum?
This group’s feedback is crucial as they are the end-users or consumers of the product, providing insights that shape the product’s direction.
Who are the Customers or Users?
This term describes the maximum amount of work that the Development Team feels it can take on in a Sprint.
What is Sprint Capacity?
This principle advocates for embracing changes in requirements, even late in development, for the customer’s competitive advantage.
What is Welcome Changing Requirements?
This is the plan for what the team will work on during their next few weeks of work.
What is a Sprint Backlog?
At the end of a Sprint, this ceremony is held to review what was accomplished and to present the work to stakeholders.
What is a Sprint Review?
This role helps the team and organization adopt Agile methods, often providing training and coaching to teams.
Who is an Agile Coach?
This aspect of a user story in the backlog ensures that the requirements are clearly understood by both the stakeholders and the development team.
What are Acceptance Criteria?
This principle encourages teams to maintain a constant pace indefinitely, advocating for sustainable development.”
What is Sustainable Development?
They are concise descriptions of desired functionality from an end-user perspective. They capture requirements and serve as the basis for development tasks.
What are User Stories?
This ceremony occurs after the Sprint Review and is a chance for the team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint.
What is a Sprint Retrospective?
This role is tasked with articulating the product vision, ensuring the team understands the direction and purpose behind their work.
Who is the Product Owner?
This term refers to the relative effort required to complete a user story, often represented by a number in a sequence like Fibonacci.
What is a Story Point?
This principle highlights the importance of business people and developers working together daily throughout the project.
What is Business and Developer Cooperation?
This term describes a way to identify your project teams’ roles and responsibilities for any task, milestone, or project deliverable. By following a four-character acronym, you can clarify responsibility and reduce confusion.
What is a RACI Chart?
This less frequent ceremony involves all stakeholders and is an opportunity to inspect the product increment and adapt the Product Backlog if needed.
What is a Product Backlog Refinement or Backlog Grooming?
This role is responsible for guiding the team in Agile practices and may assist with more strategic views on the Agile adoption within the organization.
Who is an Agile Coach?
This practice involves adding new user stories to the Product Backlog as the team learns more about the customer’s needs and the project evolves.
What is Continuous Backlog Refinement?