Scrum Principles
This person facilitates, the scrum process, 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 high speed 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
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?
The format is as follows: As a _ I want to _ so that _
What is a User Story?
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.
What is Self Organizing?
This is the leader responsible for maximizing the value of the products created by the development team
Who is the Product Owner?
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 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 delivery team is known as this if they are comprised of team members who have all the skills necessary to complete the work committed to.
What is Cross Functional?
These are the people who enable the project and for whom the project will produce the agreed-upon benefit(s).
What is Stakeholders?
The 2002 Standish Group study reported on only 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. An important part of continuous improvement
What is a Retrospective?
A collection of features to implement the vision prioritized by business value.
What is the Product Backlog?
Retrospectives is a Scrum practice that fulfills these Scrum Principles.
What are Inspect & Adapt?
This is the only role that scrum recognizes within the delivery team.
What is developer?
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.
What is Velocity?