Scrum Principles
The 3Cs stand for Card, Conversation, and?
What is Confirmation?
Significant new technical capability supporting the objectives of the parent Project.
What is Deliverable?
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 high speed event usually lasts 2 weeks here at Bank of America.
What is a Sprint/Iteration?
Texas Hold'em is a close cousin of this estimation tool.
What is Planning Poker
This principle describes project visibility and establishes trust among all project participants.
What is Transparency?
A big user story that needs to be broken down.
What is Epic?
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 week development cycle.
What is the Sprint Backlog?
The format is as follows: As a I want to so that
What is a User Story?
A delivery team is know as this if they have a high degree of autonomy and are responsible for the management of their own work.
What are Self Organizing?
The smallest unit of work that needs to be done.
What is a Story?
This is the ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes.
What is Continuous Improvement?
Daily standing status meeting.
What is the Daily Scrum?
At the beginning of an Iteration the Product Owner is responsible for defining this. The Delivery Team should refer back to this often for reinforcement.
What is the Iteration Goals?
A delivery team is known as this if they are comprised of team members who have all the skills necessary to complete their work.
What is Cross Functional?
This issue type represents work that needs to be done.
What is Task?
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?
Articulates what must be demoed to the PO for story acceptance
What is the Acceptance Criteria?
Retrospectives is a Scrum practice that fulfills this Scrum Principle.
What is Inspect & Adapt?
A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of a product.
What is a bug or defect?
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?
The number of story points that the team can complete in a given sprint or iteration.
What is an Velocity?