Agile Roles
A person external to the Scrum Team with a specific interest in and knowledge of a product that is required for incremental discovery. Represented by the Product Owner and actively engaged with the Scrum Team at Sprint Review.
What is a Stakeholder?
The process for reviewing items on the Backlog to ensure the Backlog contains prioritized items understood by the team.
What is Backlog Refinement?
A collection of Minimum Marketable Features that can be delivered together within the same timeframe.
What is MMR (Minimum Marketable Release)?
This allows the team to focus on the relative size of complexity of delivering a specific piece of functionality rather than trying to perfectly estimate the duration of time required for its completion.
What is Story Points?
A list of criteria which must be met before work is considered “done”. Failure to meet these criteria at the end of the Sprint normally implies that the work should not be counted toward that Sprint’s Velocity.
What is Definition of Done?
A small group of people (usually 6 to 10), assigned to the same project or effort, nearly all of them on a full-time basis and with the skills and authority to complete customer-valued results.
What is the Team?
The activity that prioritizes and identifies Stories and concrete Tasks for the next Sprint.
What is Sprint Planning?
A discipline that enables teams to meet customer needs and add business value by working iteratively on a product from initiation through sunset.
What is Product Management?
A measurement of how much work a team has been able to deliver in a fixed period of time, usually a sprint. It is the sum of the sizes of all work (usually story points) delivered per unit of time.
What is Velocity?
A set of requirements that need to be approved by the consumer before work can move forward. They provide additional specificity to help resolve ambiguities and ensure quality.
What are Acceptance Criteria?
Ensures that the Scrum Team adheres to Scrum theory, practices, and rules. This person is a servant -leader for the Scrum Team. He/She helps those outside the Scrum Team understand which of their interactions with the Scrum Team are helpful and which aren’t. He/She helps everyone change these interactions to maximize the value created by the Scrum Team.
What is the Scrum Master?
A short (usually 15 minutes) meeting that starts at the same time and occurs in the same location every day. Topics discussed may include what has been completed, what is planned to complete by Agile Teams what impediments/obstacles are blocking progress.
What is the Daily Standup?
A schedule of events and milestones that communicate planned deliverables over a timeline. It includes commitments for the planned Program Increment and offers visibility into the forecasted deliverables of the next few Program Increments.
What is a Roadmap?
The number of work items started but not yet finish
What is WIP (Work in Progress)?
A visual representation of the state of work in progress (WIP). This encourages small, incremental changes to the current process and does not require a specific set up or procedure. Team members pull work from the product backlog. The only constraints are WIP limits placed on the amount of work that exists in the pipeline at any given time.
What is Kanban?
Person on a Scrum team who serves as the content authority for Stories at the team level and is responsible for defining and prioritizing Stories in the Product Backlog, as well as prioritizing Stories to be included in a Sprint. He/she is responsible for the Product Backlog, prioritizing and accepting Stories, and representing the customer to the Agile Team.
What is the Product Owner?
A meeting used to highlight solutions and gather feedback. It is held at the end of each sprint and/or Program Increment (Quarter) to communicate what was completed/accepted during this timeframe.
What is the Showcase?
The technique to learn about customer demand before overcommitting resources. The result is not a fully usable product that will delight customers. It is simply a learning vehicle. A focus on learning before scaling.
What is MVP (Minimum Viable Product)?
The total elapsed time from the customer’s initial request to the satisfaction of the request.
What is Lead Time?
A Story aimed at answering a question or gathering information, rather than implementing product functionaility. Like any other Story or Task, it is then given an estimate and included in the Sprint Backlog.
What is a Spike?
Person who serves as the content authority for the Agile Release Train and is responsible for defining and prioritizing Features in the Program Backlog, as well as prioritizing Features to be included in the Program Increment and Release. He/she works with the internal and external stakeholders.
What is the Product Manager?
A meeting where the team members discuss the results of the Sprint, review their best practices and identify ways to improve.
What is the Retrospective?
A tool to reduce time-to-market, this describes the product with the smallest possible feature set that addresses the user needs, creates the desired user experience, and can be marketed and sold successfully.
What is MMF (Minimum Marketable Feature)?
The measurement of how much work can be completed within a given, fixed timeframe for an individual or team. It is important to factor in all known variables such as meetings, holidays, and vacations, as well as the effects of multi-tasking and normal administrative Tasks.
What is Capacity?
A software engineering approach in which teams produce software in short cycles, ensuring that the software can be reliably released at any time. It aims at building, testing, and releasing software faster and more frequently. The approach helps reduce the cost, time, and risk of delivering changes by allowing for more incremental updates to applications in production.
What is Continuous Delivery?