Ceremonies
The short cycle iterations which result in a complete component or product.
What is a sprint?
This person facilitates team decisions and ensures impediments are removed. This role monitors burn down, and ensures crystal clear communications are maintained among everyone involved in the project.
Who is the SquadMaster?
The prioritized list of user stories the delivery team commits to working on during a 2-4 week development cycle.
What is the Sprint Backlog?
The number of story points that the team can complete in a given sprint.
What is an Velocity?
Ritual when the product owner and some, or all, of the rest of the team review items on the backlog to ensure the backlogcontains the appropriate items, that they are prioritized, and that the items at the top of the backlog are ready for delivery.
What is Backlog Grooming?
Uses information about user goals and behavior to design processes and functions that help users interact with the system and achieve their goals. Responsible for identifying those key interactions and wireframing and prototyping them.
What is the UX team?
a list of the new features, changes to existing features, bug fixes, infrastructure changes or other activities that a team may deliver in order to achieve a specific outcome.
What is a backlog ?
At the beginning of a project the Product Owner is responsible for defining this. The Delivery Team should refer back to this often for reinforcement.
What is the Product Vision?
Each day, all scrum team members meet briefly, 15 minutes or less, to explain to the other members what they worked on the previous day, what they're working on today and what impediments they have.
What is a Daily stand up meeting?
This role understands the value of the project, is available to the scrum team in real time everyday, plans releases and accepts the software.
Who is the Product Owner?
something short, with simple descriptions of a feature told from the perspective of the person who desires the new capability, usually a user or customer of the system
What is a User story?
a philosophy of approach to software development and a set of practices that stresses communication, collaboration and close cooperation between the agile development teams and information technology professionals who are responsible for deploying and maintaining the software systems
What is a devops ?
At the beginning of each sprint, the scrum team meets and determines what user stories will be developed and discuss any logistical issues that will influence the teams successful delivery of features chosen by the team.
What is a sprint planning?
Folks who prioritize the Sprint Backlog, estimate the effort, develop and test software, and identify impediments.
What is the scrum team?
a large graph relating the quantity of work remaining (on the vertical axis) and the time elapsed since the start of the project (on the horizontal, showing future as well as past)
What is a burn down chart ?
A period (from 1 week to 2 months in duration) during which the Agile development team produces an increment of completed software.
What is an iteration ?
At the end of each sprint, the scrum team meets to discuss what went well, what did not go well and what should be changed.
What is a sprint retrospective?
These people are not fully committed to the project but do make contributions to the project.
What are chickens?
A quantified evaluation of the effort necessary to carry out a given task; this is most often expressed in terms of complexity, unknown and time.
What is an estimation?
A representation of the state of work in process
What is a Kanban ?