Scrum Ceremonies
A short daily session during which the day's work is planned and discussed.
What is the Daily Stand Up?
A value assigned to a user story for planning purposes, it is not a time estimate, but a relative value.
What is a Story Point?
Comparing one user stories complexity to another
What is relative estimation?
This framework for Agile project management is focused on getting things done as fast as possible, giving teams the ability to react to change.
What is Kanban?
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Who is Peppermint Patty?
At the beginning of each sprint, the scrum team meets and determines what user stories will be developed and discuss any logistical issues that will influence the teams successful delivery of features chosen by the team.
What is Sprint Planning?
A visual to show team progress toward completion of a sprint commitment.
What is a burn down chart?
The primary goal of Agile development
What is to deliver working software that adds value?
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What is Toyota?
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Who is Charlie Brown?
At the end of each sprint, the scrum team meets to discuss what went well, what did not go well and what should be changed.
What is a Retrospective?
The term used to indicate the number of story points that an agile team completes in an iteration.
What is Velocity?
The first model used in software engineering. Agile was born to provide an alternative to this project management approach.
What is Waterfall model?
A series of numbers where each number equals the sum of the previous two numbers. Often used as a basis for relative estimation.
What is the Fibonacci Sequence?
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Who is Pig Pen?
Not an official Scrum ceremony, but a critical activity used to make sure the backlog is properly ordered and detailed.
What is Refinement?
Calculated from time first worked, to time delivered.
What is Cycle Time?
What am I?
Prioritize me or I else I be useless like a log on your back.
What is Product Backlog?
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What is Extreme (XP) Programming?
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Who is Linus?
An opportunity to examine the work completed during the sprint and to re-prioritize the backlog as needed.
What is the Sprint Review?
A scrum team is known as this if they have a high degree of autonomy and are responsible for the management of their own work.
What is Self Organizing?
Less-than-ideal software components that have made it into production, often due to time pressures.
What is Technical Debt?
Where the Agile Principles and Values are documented
What is the Agile Manifesto?
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Who is Lucy?