Scrum Basics
This event happens every day in Scrum to inspect and adapt.
What is Daily Sync or Daily Standup?
This role is accountable for maximizing the value of the product.
What is Product Owner?
The ceremony where multiple teams plan together.
What is PI Planning?
A unit of measure that tells the story of effort and complexity, not hours or days on a clock.
What is a Story Point?
Trust is built through this type of communication.
What is Honest Feedback?
A prioritized list of work for the development team.
What is Product Backlog?
This person acts as a mirror, helping teams inspect themselves during retrospectives.
What is Scrum Master?
The meeting designed to be 15 minutes but somehow becomes a TED Talk if you're not careful.
What is a Daily Standup or Daily Sync?
The percentage of time when work is actually moving instead of waiting and gathering dust.
What is Flow Efficiency?
What you create when you promote psychological safety.
What is a Speak-Up Culture?
Agile projects should focus on delivering this.
What is Business Value?
People responsible for built in quality?
What is Agile Team?
The ceremony of 'It worked yesterday, I swear!
What is a System Demo?
The name of the technique that helps the team estimate relative size of user stories, using Fibonacci, t-shirt sizes, etc.
What is planning poker or estimation poker?
The leadership style that supports and removes obstacles for teams.
What is Servant Leadership?
This Agile metric measures the amount of work completed during a sprint or iteration.
What is Velocity?
Should regularly participate in demos and PI Planning for maximum transparency.
What is Stakeholder?
The Iteration where you are supposed to innovate but mostly catch up on things you ignored for 9 weeks.
What is Innovation & Planning (IP) Iteration?
The goal of this Agile metric is to see the Average Actual Completed vs Committed Stories delivered every Iteration.
What is Predictability?
Instead of controlling, agile leaders should focus on enabling and this.
What is Empowering?
The 3 pillars of Scrum are Transparency, Inspection, and this.
What is Adaptation?
Can turn a 10-minute conversation into a 3-hour debate by mentioning "technical debt."
What is VDE Architect?
The moment or meeting where you realize the real problem is that nobody agrees on what the problem is.
What is a Problem Solving Workshop?
Agile teams use this metric to identify bottlenecks and optimize their processes by tracking how long work items stay in each stage.
What is Cycle Time?
The secret power of ignoring drama and shiny distractions to deliver real value.
What is Focus?