Scrum Roles
This person serves as a facilitator for both the Product Owner and the Development Team and is responsible for promoting and supporting Scrum and agile processes and principles.
Who is a ScrumMaster?
It is a model for software development that was used before agile. It's easy to use, but not suitable for large projects.
What is the Waterfall?
A story that is too big to fit into a single sprint and must be broken into smaller pieces.
What is an Epic?
A tool Scrum teams use to Inspect and Adapt at the end of every development cycle.
What is a Retrospective?
This value refers to working in sprints and taking on the work in small, manageable chunks. (hint: starts with f)
What is focus?
Self organizes and self assigns work in a sprint.
What is the Development Team?
The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from these.
What are self-organizing teams?
This term means that significant aspects of the process must be visible to those responsible for the outcome.
What is Transparency?
At the end of a sprint the team demonstrates the product at this meeting.
What is the Sprint Demo & Review?
This value refers to the team doing whatever is collectively necessary in order to meet their goals. (hint: starts with c)
What is commitment?
This is the person ultimately responsible for the product. He/She sets the vision and prioritizes the backlog.
Who is the Product Owner?
The 2002 Standish Group study reported that 20% of features are used "often" or "always." This is a key reason why Agile projects focus on this.
What is Business Value?
A collection of features to implement the vision that are prioritized by business value.
What is the Product Backlog?
A meeting that lasts 15 to 30 minutes!
What is the Daily Standup or Daily Scrum?
This value shows the team is willing to accept change and to embrace new ideas. (hint: starts with o)
What is openness?
These are the people who enable the project and for whom the project will produce the agreed-upon benefit(s).
Who are the Stakeholders?
Waterfall projects have fixed requirements and usually negotiate Cost and Schedule. Agile projects negotiate this.
What is Scope?
When we calculate the average number of story points a team accomplishes during an sprint, and use that number to plan our future sprints and releases, we're using this metric.
What is the Velocity?
A meeting that aims to improve communication, eliminate other meetings, identify impediments to development for removal, highlight and promote quick decision-making, and improve the Development Team’s level of knowledge.
What is the Daily Standup or Daily Scrum?
This value acknowledges the expertise of each role and team member in agile. (hint: starts with r)
What is respect?
This role determines the size of the work.
What is the team?
Agile values this over following a plan.
What is responding to change?
Specific and measurable, negotiated between the product owner and the team, and reflect the "shippable" code that is expected at the end of the sprint.
What is the Sprint Goal?
A graphical representation of the remaining work to be done versus time in a sprint.
What is a burn down chart?
With this value, the team commits to as much work as possible within the Sprint whilst respecting the definition of done. (hint: starts with c)
What is courage?