Back to Basics
A process framework used to manage product development & other knowledge work.
What is a Scrum?
Here's where you will find features, milestones, & significant dependencies
What is a Program Board?
This is divided into three columns labeled "To Do," "In Progress," & "Done." Cards are placed in the columns to reflect the current status of that task
What is a Task Board?
A previously agreed period of time during which a person or a team works steadily towards completion of some goal.
What is a timebox?
The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business Solutions.
What is Business Agility?
This is the most commonly practiced Agile techniques & it presents an opportunity for a team to get together on a regular basis to coordinate their activities; occurs daily
What is a Daily Standup?
This team member has content authority to make decisions at the User Story level during Program Increment (PI) Planning
Who is the Product Owner?
An event that occurs at the beginning of a sprint where the team determines the product backlog items they will work on during that sprint.
What is Sprint Planning?
This process uses of the Fibonacci sequence to assign a point value to a feature or user story.
What is Planning Poker
This individual protects the team from the problem of multiple stakeholder
What is the Product Owner
The "version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort."
What is the MVP (Minimum Viable Product)?
Alignment, built-in quality, transparency, & program execution all are part of this group
What are the Scaled Agile Framework Core Values?
This 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 Product Backlog?
Agile teams generally prefer to express estimates in these units of complexity & effort rather than in "man-hours."
What are points?
A meeting in which the team gathers after each sprint to reflect on the most significant events that occurred since the previous such meeting, & identify opportunities for improvement.
What is a Retrospective?
This is an agreed upon list of the activities deemed necessary to get a product increment, usually represented by a user story, to a done state by the end of a sprint.
What is the "Definition of Done"?
The process of taking features from the Program Backlog and developing, testing, integrating, and validating them in a staging environment where they are ready for deployment and release
What is Continuous Integration
This is the subset of product backlog that a team targets to deliver during a sprint in order to accomplish the sprint goal & make progress toward a desired outcome.
What is a Sprint Backlog?
This is a time-box during which development takes place. The duration may vary from project to project & is usually fixed.
What is an iteration?
According to the Agile Manifesto, this is the art of maximizing the amount of work not done... & it is essential
What is Simplicity?
The is the scrum term for iteration. Scrum teams use inspection throughout an agile project to ensure that the team meets the goals of each part of the process.
What is a Sprint?
These are the parameters that are required to calculate Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)
What are Business Value, Job Duration, & Risk Reduction?
A tool that tracks the amount of output (in terms of hours, story points, or backlog items) a team has completed across an iteration or a project.
What is a burn-down chart?
These include the Product Owner Sync & Scrum of Scrums
What are Agile Release Train sync meetings?
This team member facilitates the PO Sync meeting
What is a Release Train Engineer