A set of items that a team selects from its product backlog to work on during the upcoming iteration.
What is the Sprint Backlog?
In 2001 a group of software industry leaders gathered at Snowbird ski resort and published this document describing a now famous approach to software development.
What is the Agile Manifesto?
Ikurjiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi did this in 1986.
What is the coined term "Scrum"?
A meeting that lasts less than 15 minutes.
What is the Daily Standup or Daily Scrum?
Steven went to university in this Canadian province with the second largest % of French speaking population.
New Brunswick
A formal description of the state of the Increment when it meets the quality measures required for the product.
What is Definition of Done?
The ultimate measure of progress for an Agile Development Team.
What is Working Software?
This is usually 5-9 people is size.
What is a Development Team?
At the end of a sprint the team demonstrates the product at this meeting.
What’s a Sprint Review/Sprint Demo?
Steven recently went on vacation to this country known for port wine, football and surfing.
Portugal
A collection of features to implement the vision that are prioritized by business value.
What is the Product Backlog?
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?
This role understands the value of the project, is available to the scrum team everyday, plans releases and accepts the software.
What is a Product Owner?
The most effective and efficient method of conveying information to and within a development team.
What is in-person communication and/or collaboration?
Steven's bother currently lives in this Canadian province, which is the smallest province in Canada by population and land mass.
Prince Edward Island
The number of story points that the team can complete in a given sprint.
What is the Velocity?
Waterfall projects have fixed requirements and usually negotiate Cost and Schedule. Agile projects negotiate this.
What is Scope?
These are the colleagues who enable the project and for whom the project will produce the agreed-upon benefit(s).
Who are the Stakeholders?
A method to scale scrum up for multiple teams working on the same product, allowing teams to discuss progress on their inter-dependencies. It is generally comprised of an ambassador from each scrum team.
What is a scrum of scrum meeting?
An elder family member of Steve we know about, whom is a "rockstar".
Who is Aunt Shirley?