Agile/Scrum
In Scrum, this term refers to a time-boxed event where the team reviews the work completed during the sprint and adapts their plan for the next sprint
What is a Sprint Review/Plan?
Defines work needed to move a sub-optimal solution to a more maintainable, performant solution.
What is Technical Debt?
Scrum defines this key document that outlines the work that needs to be done, ordered by priority, and maintained by the Product Owner.
What is the Product Backlog?
Who is accountable for facilitating the removal of impediments and ensuring that the Agile team can deliver value efficiently during a sprint?
Who is the Scrum Master?
Scrum defines these short, time-boxed periods during which the team works to deliver a potentially shippable , valuable, useful , product increment.
What are Sprints?
The three Story Categories that start with an 'E'.
What are: Enhancement, Enabler and Exclusion?
User Stories/Work-Items follow this standard template to ensure consistency and user centricity.
As a<Role>, I want to <Feature>, so that <Benefit>?
Who is responsible for defining the architecture and technical approach for the Agile project?
Who is the Technical Lead or Architect?
A customer-centric way of working together to deliver our products by using iterative development and collaboration between self-organizing cross-functional teams.
What is Agile?
Story Category which identifies the activities of researching, designing, investigating, and exploring to better understand a requirement.
What is Spike?
Acceptance Criteria follows this standard template to ensure understanding among the Team
What is Gherkin?
This role in Agile is responsible for building and testing the product, ensuring that it meets the acceptance criteria defined by the Product Owner.
Who is the Development Team (Developers)?
This scaled Agile framework is designed for large organizations and focuses on alignment, collaboration, and delivery at scale.
What is the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)?
Supportive activities needed to extend the runway to provide future business functionality, including architecture, infrastructure, and compliance
What is Enabler?
Used to indicate the complexity, uncertainty and amount of effort for a body of work.
What are points?
This role is crucial in providing the Agile team with a clear understanding of business goals and priorities.
Who are stakeholders?
How teams articulate what they want to achieve and align to business unit objectives.
What are OKRs?
GoSo/SPE utilizes these Issue Types most frequently.
What are 'Stories' and 'Bugs'?
A high-level user story which may take several Sprints to complete.
What is Feature?
Responsible for coordinating event across all team members to align development to program goals and objectives for the next 10-12 weeks.
Who is Release Train Engineer (RTE)?