Agile Basics
This Agile framework uses fixed-length iterations called “sprints” to deliver incremental value.
What is Scrum?
This role owns the product vision and prioritizes the backlog.
Who is the Product Owner?
This is the Agile term for continuously improving processes and teamwork.
What is retrospective (or continuous improvement)?
This daily event helps the team inspect progress and adjust the plan for the day.
What is the Daily Stand-up (or Daily Scrum)?
True or False: Agile means no documentation.
Answer: What is False?
Agile values “Individuals and interactions” over this.
What is processes and tools?
In Scrum, this servant-leader facilitates ceremonies and removes impediments.
Who is the Scrum Master?
Agile teams embrace change, even when it happens at this stage of the project.
What is late in development?
Breaking work into the smallest valuable chunks for delivery is called this.
What is iterative development (or incremental delivery)?
This is the common but wrong assumption that Agile means no planning.
What is “Agile = no plan”? (Agile requires continuous planning.)
This principle emphasizes delivering this type of product to customers as early and often as possible.
What is a working product (or working software)?
In Agile, the responsibility for delivering increments of value lies with this group.
Who is the Development Team?
This cultural value encourages teams to work together daily with business stakeholders.
What is collaboration?
A visual board used to track work-in-progress is called this.
What is a Kanban board?
Starting too many initiatives at once often causes this bottleneck.
What is work overload (or context switching)?
This artifact in Scrum is the single source of work for the Development Team.
What is the Product Backlog?
In Agile, this role focuses on the product’s overall strategy, market fit, and long-term vision, ensuring the roadmap aligns with customer and business needs.
Who is the Product Manager?
In Agile culture, “failure” is reframed as this type of opportunity.
What is a learning opportunity?
In Agile, this measure ensures teams avoid starting too much work at once.
What is Work In Progress (WIP) limit?
Focusing only on speed instead of value often leads to this problem.
Answer: What is delivering low-value features?
These four values form the foundation of the Agile Manifesto.
What are Individuals and interactions, Working software, Customer collaboration, and Responding to change?
In Agile culture, decision-making authority should be moved to this level when possible.
What is the lowest responsible level (or the team level)?
The belief that “you can’t predict everything, so adapt” reflects this Agile principle.
What is responding to change over following a plan?
This meeting marks the end of a sprint and demonstrates value delivered.
What is the Sprint Review?
Believing Agile will solve all organizational problems without cultural change is an example of this type of thinking.
What is Agile as a silver bullet?