Scrum Master
The team role responsible for ensuring the team lives agile values and principles and follows the processes and practices that the team agreed they would use
Describe the role of the Scrum Master
This person facilitates team decisions and ensures impediments are removed.
Who is the ScrumMaster?
In 2001 several 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?
This event usually lasts between 2-4 weeks.
What is a Sprint?
Texas Hold'em is a close cousin of this estimation tool.
What is Planning Poker
A delivery team is known as this if they have a high degree of autonomy and are responsible for the management of their own work.
Describe a self organizing team
This is usually 5-9 people is size.
What is the Delivery Team?
This is the primary measure of progress for an Agile development team.
What is Working Software?
The prioritized list of user stories the delivery team commits to working on during a 2-4 week development cycle.
What is the Sprint Backlog?
A collection of features to implement the vision, prioritized by business value
What is a Product Backlog
It refers to the act of putting strict time boundaries around an action or activity
What is time boxing
Is responsible for the product vision
Who is the Product Owner?
This is the ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes.
What is Continuous Improvement?
At the beginning of a project, the Product Owner is responsible for defining this. The Delivery Team should refer back to this often for reinforcement.
What is the Product Vision?
A philosophy that the leader is in service of the team, This is different from traditional leadership where the leader's main focus is the thriving of their company or organizations
What is Servant Leadership
These are the people who enable the project and for whom the project will produce the agreed-upon benefit(s).
Who are the sponsors or customers
The 2002 Standish Group study reported on 20% of features are used "often" or "always." This is a key reason why Agile projects focus on this.
What is Business Value?
A tool Scrum teams use to Inspect and Adapt at the end of every development cycle.
What is a Retrospective?
The act of helping other people to deal with a process or reach an agreement or solution without getting directly involved in the process or discussion.
What is Facilitation
Waterfall projects have fixed requirements and usually negotiate Cost and Schedule. Agile projects negotiate this.
What is Scope?
At the end of development cycle the delivery team produces this.
What is a Potentially Shippable Product?