Roles
Works cross-functionally with Product Owners, Business Owners, Architecture, CX, Risk and Compliance
Who is the Product Manager?
A forecast of how long it should take a work item to flow from started to finished
What is a Service Level Expectation (SLE)?
The word "No"
What is an important word in the Product Owner’s vocabulary when negotiating with stakeholders?
The total number of work items started but not finished
What is Work in Progress (WIP)?
True or False - Agile, Kanban and Scrum all mean basically the same thing
False
Scrum and Kanban are each different methods or frameworks for achieving agility.
Helps the Product Owner to analyze, decompose and define Product Backlog Items.
Who is the Team?
How we know when a work item is “Ready for Development”?
What is the Definition of Ready
A strategy for optimizing the flow of value through a process that uses a visual, pull-based system
What is Kanban?
The flow metric that can be used to forecast the completion of a single work item
What is Cycle Time?
The amount of elapsed time between when a work item started and when a work item finished
Known for small batches that deliver value; an adaptive approach; a push mindset; and continuous improvement.
What are characteristics of Agile
Define and prioritize the product backlog.
Collaborate with the development team to clarify requirements.
Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders.
Who is a Product Owner?
Avoiding work items piling up in any part of the workflow
Ensuring work items don’t age unnecessarily
Actively working to unblock blocked work
What are ways of controlling WIP?
The Stable and Predictable delivery of value throughout a system
What is Flow?
The flow metric that lets Kanban system members know that an in-progress Work Item is not "flowing" the way it is expected to
What is Work Item Age?
True or False - in Agile, we welcome changing requirements, even late in development
True
Agile is adaptive; we learn as we go. That's why it's iterative - responding to change.
Looks for ways to improve themselves and the performance of the Team.
What is the entire Team
A prioritization model used to sequence work for maximum economic benefit and is estimated as the relative cost of delay divided by the relative job duration.
What is Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)?
A single, emergent, ordered (prioritized) list of everything needed to improve the product
What is the Product Backlog?
The number of work items finished per unit of time.
What is Throughput?
Manages the Team
Who is No One! Or the Team itself
Expert on Flow and Agile ways of working and Coach to the team.
Who is the Scrum Master or Team Coach?
A formal description of the state of the Increment when it meets the quality measures required for the product
What is the "Definition of Done"?
If the Definition of Done is work item agnostic; then Accpetance Criteria is this
What is work item specific?
If 'What you build' is an example of Outputs, then 'The impact of what you build' is an example of this
What are Outcomes?
The ability to deliver in small batches, get fast feedback from customers, and quickly respond to change
What is the objective of Agile?