Cards: Know when to Hold 'Em and when to Fold 'Em
An obstacle that needs to be overcome for a story to progress.
What is a blocker?
The team may not be, but the story is. It has everything the team needs to begin working on it.
What is ready?
What we do halfway through a sprint. We review stories that are in planned but not yet ready, blockers and risks related to what might endanger the success of the sprint.
What is reality check?
The default color for all stories when a roadmap is imported and all stories are assigned to Business Value 3
What is white?
We use the INVEST model to provide guard rails for planning this type of card
What is a story?
A type of card in TargetProcess that is a single tactical deliverable. It does not require a planning meeting.
What is a request?
The client has confirmed that the story meets all success criteria and is complete.
What is done?
The period of the day when team members are empowered to collaborate and work individually to complete stories without unscheduled interruptions.
What is flow time?
Issues are red. Stories are blue. I know what color a request is, do you?
What is yellow?
This ensures stories are stand-alone deliverables and not a part or a piece of something.
What is independent?
The name for a story, request or blocker that needs to be completed before a story can be moved to ready.
What is a relation?
The team has written the story and aligned with the client, but the story still lacks something in order to start.
What is planned?
A set of stories that are all related to a unified outcome or goal, usually designated in TargetProcess with three numbers.
What is a project?
The color of a story when one role on this story has logged more time than estimated, but the entire story is still under total hours estimated.
What is orange?
This keeps stories at a size that ensures they can be delivered in a single sprint.
What is small?
A type of card in TargetProcess. The scope was written by the team, reviewed by the client and expectations are aligned.
What is a story?
The team considers the story to meet all success criteria and is ready to present to the client.
What is internal review?
What we call the entire roadmap of work in all future sprints within TargetProcess.
What is backlog or the backlog?
The color of a story that has a high value to Starmark's business (it's not due first, or hot; it just has a high business value).
What is dark green?
This ensures we are only recommending stories that align with and help achieve the goals of the project
What is valuable?
A type of card in TargetProcess that is defined as, "hot, broken and live."
What is an issue?
This column means "to plan" or "replan based on feedback."
What is backlog?
Stories that are ready to work on but are in a future sprint.
What is stretch?
The color of a story where the total effort logged has exceeded the total time estimated.
What is red?
This ensure that there are enough details to properly scope the deliverable
What is estimatable?