SCRUM METRICS & MEASUREMENTS
This metric, calculated as the average amount of work completed in a Sprint, helps the Scrum team forecast future work and set realistic Sprint goals.
What is Velocity?
While the Development Team focuses on delivering the work, this person is responsible for ensuring the Scrum process is followed and the team operates within the Scrum framework.
Who is the Scrum Master?
This Scrum ceremony is specifically designed for the Development Team to synchronize, discuss progress, and identify obstacles, though stakeholders are welcome to observe.
What is the Daily Standup?
In this meeting, the team identifies obstacles, but the focus is on bringing them up, not solving them during the meeting.
What is the Daily Scrum?
Scrum enables teams to manage their own work, make decisions, and collaborate effectively without external direction. This characteristic is known as:
What is self-organizing?
Scrum is best described as this type of approach that emphasizes iterative progress, collaboration, and flexibility to deliver value.
What is "Agile"?
This metric helps Scrum teams assess how well they align their Sprint commitments with their actual deliveries, promoting realistic planning and stakeholder trust.
What is the Say/Do ratio?
This Scrum role is responsible for maintaining and prioritizing the product backlog, ensuring that the team works on the most valuable tasks first.
Who is the Product Owner?
This Scrum ceremony focuses on continuous improvement, where the development team reflects on their processes and identifies adjustments to enhance their performance in future Sprints.
What is the Sprint Retrospective?
In the Daily Scrum, only these people are typically encouraged to speak, focusing on their work and blockers.
Who are the Development Team members?
This term refers to a team environment where members feel safe to openly share their opinions, take risks, and admit mistakes, without fear of judgment or retaliation, which is essential for collaboration and growth.
What is psychological safety?
These are the three pillars of Scrum.
What are "Transparency, Inspection, and Adaptation"?
A smaller number for this metric means the team can deliver work faster, identify bottlenecks earlier, and respond more effectively to change.
What is Cycle Time?
This group of people is responsible for ultimately accepting which items from the Product Backlog they will take on during a Sprint, based on their capacity and skills.
What is the Development Team?
During this ceremony, the team should not commit to work that they have not yet discussed, ensuring that the scope is achievable given their capacity.
What is Sprint Planning?
To ensure smooth Sprint Planning, it is recommended that the team always has this many sprints' worth of stories groomed and ready at the top of the Product Backlog.
What is "two sprints' worth"?
This is a set of shared expectations and behaviors that a Scrum team agrees upon, outlining how they will work together, communicate, and resolve conflicts to ensure a smooth, collaborative environment.
What is Team Agreement?
Scrum defines these three artifacts that represent work or value.
What are "Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Increment"?
This Scrum metric chart tracks the difference between the planned and actual work completed during a Sprint, helping to identify potential scope creep.
What is a burn-down chart?
This role is accountable for ensuring the Scrum Team has a clear goal, focuses on high-priority items, and delivers value within each Sprint.
Who is the Product Owner?
A user story should have these three key elements—acceptance criteria, a clear description, and any necessary technical details—before it is brought to this Scrum ceremony.
What is Backlog Refinement?
These should be written with a focus on the user, often following the “As a [user], I want [something] so that [value]” format.
What are user stories?
This happens when a team depends too much on one or two people for their expertise, causing problems if those people aren’t available.
What is knowledge dependency?
These five principles guide behavior and decision-making within a Scrum team to foster collaboration, trust, and continuous improvement.
What are "Commitment, Courage, Focus, Openness, and Respect"?
Teams can measure the quality and completeness of their work by ensuring each increment meets this agreed-upon checklist of criteria before being considered done.
What is the Definition of Done (DoD)?
This member of the Scrum team at SkySlope is responsible for coaching developers, providing career guidance, and ensuring alignment with broader organizational technical strategies.
Who is the Engineering Manager?
In this ceremony, the team demonstrates only the work that is fully completed during the current sprint, leaving out anything still in progress or that was completed in a previous sprint.
What is the Sprint Review? (or demo)
The development team can do this during backlog refinement when a task is too large to complete in a sprint.
What is "slicing stories”?
During Sprint Planning, this group must agree on the work that will be completed in the sprint.
Who are the all scrum team members?
Scrum was first introduced in this decade, marking the beginning of its widespread use in software development.
What is the 1990s?