Ceremonies
The most frequent ceremony that occurs every day
What is a/the Daily Stand Up?
Self-organized group of individuals who complete user stories
What is an Agile Team
A timeboxed duration in which teams complete user stories
What is an Iteration/Sprint
Quantitative approach for prioritizing Epics or Stories in the backlog for delivery
What is a Weighted Shortest Job First
Scaled agile methodology that BSC Agile Playbook is based on.
SAFe
Team may create stories from Features/Epics and place into Product Backlog
What is Backlog Grooming / Refinement?
Facilitates scrum principles within an Agile team
What is the Scrum Master
Contains all the stories for the team
What is the Product Backlog
Besides duration, the other thing you need to evaluate WSJF
What is Cost of Delay (or simply Value)
The main measure of progress
What is working software (solutions)
Inspecting and identifying how we can improve with action items for the team
What is the Sprint (Iteration) Retrospective
Responsible overall for IT Service Roadmap delivery
Who is the IT Service Manager?
Calculated from time first worked, to time delivered
What is Cycle Time
Which job to start first?
A) get 1 bunch of bananas in 2 minutes
B) get 2 bunches of bananas 3 minutes, after grabbing a stepstool that is in reach
C) get 4 bunches of bananas after buying a ladder
B) (2/3) is greater than (1/2). And Buying a ladder for 2 xtra bunches of bananas is silly.
supports the activities needed to enable architecture and technology, to provide future business functionality
What is an Enabler Epic(/Story)?
"I need to know what we are going to work on for the next Sprint/near future.."
What is Sprint Planning?
Customer proxy responsible for working with Product Management and other stakeholders
Who is the Product Owner [Business Product Owner]?
Along with Adaptation and Inspection, this completes the Pillars of Scrum
What is Transparency
Start which job first?
[a] Tech Debt story 3 pts.
[b] Enhancement: Value 5, Duration 2 Sprint
[c] Enhancement: Value 3, Duration 1 Sprint
[C] WSJF is 3
note: [b] WSJF is 2.5; [c] CoD is very low on Tech Debt
A technique used to identify closely related variants of work
What is Relative sizing/estimation?
Stakeholders are happy to see what's going on and ask questions
What is the Iteration Demo/Sprint Review
Writes/edits Stories and Acceptance Criteria
What is ANY AGILE TEAM MEMBER?
A TERM used to plan sprint workload
What is team velocity
Start which job first:
a) CoD $10k/month, 3 month duration.
b) CoD $100k/month, 1 yr duration.
c) CoD $300k/month, 2 yr duration.
[C] has highest WSJF (300,000/24 = 12,500)
[A] 10,000 / 3 = 3,333, [B] 100,000/12 = 8,333
Agile team artifact that creates transparency and clarity so teams can release energy that would be spent on conflict and focus on their work
What are Working Agreements?