Potpourri
A technique used to identify closely related variants of work.
What is Dependencies?
This Agile metric measures the amount of work completed during a sprint or iteration.
What is Velocity?
This Agile role is responsible for prioritizing and maintaining the product backlog.
Who is Product Owner/PO?
This ceremony concludes the Sprint (Iteration).
What is a Sprint Retrospective?
This type of Planning is a cadence-based, face-to-face (or virtual) event that serves as the heartbeat of the Agile Release Train (ART), aligning all the teams on the ART to a shared mission and vision. It has inputs of: Vision, program backlog, top 10 features AND outputs of: Team and program PI objectives and program board.
What is Program Increment or PI Planning?
Servant leaders and coaches for an Agile Team. They help educate the team in Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe, ensuring that the agreed Agile process is followed. They also help remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.
What is the Scrum Master/SM?
Agile teams measure this metric to identify bottlenecks and optimize their processes by tracking how long work items stay in each stage.
What is Cycle Time?
Who is accountable for facilitating the removal of impediments and ensuring that the Agile team can deliver value efficiently during a sprint?
Who is Scrum Master/SM (along with Agile Team)?
A standard, fixed-length timebox, where Agile Teams deliver incremental value in the form of working, tested software and systems. The recommended duration of the timebox is two weeks.
What is an Iteration or Sprint?
This ceremony takes place at the end of a PI and includes a System Demo, metrics review, and a problem-solving workshop. It is a ceremony an ART uses to review opportunities to improve.
What is the Inspect & Adapt event?
A board where you cannot write on with White Chalk or a marker.
What is a Scrum Board? or What is a Kanban Board?
This Agile metric helps teams understand the amount of work in progress and can be visualized on a Kanban board.
What is WIP?
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 Agile Team?
A group of self-motivated individuals with a shared responsibility to work collaboratively towards successful product delivery. They are a cross-functional, self-organizing groups of 5-11 individuals who define, build, test, and deliver an increment of value in a short time box.
What is an Agile Team?
Used to coordinate progress across the team of teams (ART).
What is an ART Sync?
Member of the Agile Team responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for the team.
What is a Product Owner/PO?
Agile teams often use this chart to visualize the amount of work remaining versus time in a sprint.
What is Burndown?
This individual or role provides guidance and support to ensure the Agile process is understood and followed.
Who is Scrum Master/SM?
A preview and elaboration of upcoming Stories. The process of a team breaking down features to stories, etc. This ceremony should be held for 1-2 hours at least once per sprint, but can be held more often when needed.
What is backlog refinement?
The rating Business Owners assign to a team's PI Objectives.
What is Business Value?
This role is a servant leader and ART coach who facilitates ART events and processes, and supports teams in delivering value. They communicate with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement.
Who is The Release Train Engineer (RTE)?
Agile teams use this metric to track the number of defects or issues found after a release or deployment.
What is Number of defects / escaped defect rate?
This role is crucial in providing the Agile team with a clear understanding of business goals and objectives.
Who is Product Owner/PO?
This role is Market/Customer facing and identifies market needs. Defines product strategy, visions and roadmaps. Manages and prioritizes the program/ART backlog. Establishes feature acceptance criteria.
Who is a Product Manager?
The four risk categories we can use to R.O.A.M. our Risks.
What is Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated?