Scrum Ceremonies
A short daily session during which the day's work is planned and discussed.
What is the Daily Stand Up (or Scrum)?
The self-organized and cross-functional group of individuals who produce valuable product iterations.
What is the Scrum Team?
A set period of time during which teams complete a set of user stories.
What is a Sprint (or Iteration)?
What is a Empiricism?
The Japanese company that developed Lean thinking and principles.
What is Toyota?
The ceremony wherein the work to be completed during the upcoming sprint is selected and planned.
What is Sprint Planning?
The person responsible for establishing good Scrum practices and encouraging continuous improvement.
Who is the Scrum Master?
The artifact that contains all identified work to be completed for a Team or Product.
What is the Team/Product Backlog?
A value assigned to a user story for planning purposes, it is not a time estimate, but a relative value.
What is a Story Point?
The year Agile was started as a defined practice; also an Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick collaboration.
What is 2001?
The ceremony where lessons learned and action items are identified.
What is the Retrospective?
The individual responsible for maximizing the value of the product produced by the Scrum Team.
Who is the Product Owner?
The conditions that must be met in order for a work item to be accepted as complete.
What are Acceptance Criteria?
According to the Agile Principles, it's an Agile team's primary measure of progress.
What is Working Software?
A series of numbers where each number equals the sum of the previous two numbers. Often used as a basis for relative estimation.
What is Refinement?
A member of the Scrum Team responsible for the creation of product iterations.
What is a Developer?
A usable implementation of an product which is made available at a certain point in time, such as at the end of a Sprint.
What is an increment?
A visual to show team progress toward completion of a sprint commitment.
What is a burn down chart?
The smallest increment of product which must be released in order to deliver value.
What is Minimum Viable Product?
An opportunity to examine the work completed during the sprint and to re-prioritize the backlog as needed.
What is the Sprint Review?
A general term for anyone who has a stake or interest in the work done by the Scrum Team.
What is a Stakeholder?
A number that measures a Team's rate of completed work, used in project forecasting and to determine sprint capacity.
What is Velocity?
One of the three pillars of Scrum, along with Inspection and Adaptation.
What is Transparency?
Less-than-ideal software components that have made it into production, often due to time pressures.
What is Technical Debt?