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This person facilitates team meetings, enforces scrum principles/methods, and removes impediments.
Who is the “Scrum Master”?
100
The recurring periods of work that make up a PSI are called this.
What is a "Sprint" or "Iteration"?
100
This Agile meeting takes place every PSI, and provides insight into areas that require improvement or modification.
What is the "Inspect & Adapt" meeting?
100
The number of story points that should be used for the estimate, if a team thinks it will take 5 ideal days to complete the work.
What is "5"?
100
The ideal number of stories a person should work on at one time.
What is "One"?
200
They are responsible for estimating, committing to, and delivering work.
Who are the “Scrum Team”?
200
This person authored Agile Software Requirements, Scaling Software Agility, and founded the Scaled Agile Framework.
Who is “Dean Leffingwell”
200
Prior to Sprint Planning, this meeting is used by the team will look at the backlog to understand the upcoming stories, break them down into smaller stories when necessary, and determine work needed for the stories.
What is "Backlog Grooming"?
200
The definition of this includes meeting all acceptance criteria and other items the team has defined to determine when a story is completed.
What is "Done"?
200
In backlogs there are this many priority 1 items.
What is "One"?
300
This person represents the stakeholder and customer community (acts as the “voice of the customer”) to the team.
Who is the “Product Owner”?
300
At the Portfolio level in SAFe, this process/method/tool is used to control the work in progress that the enterprise is working on.
What is “Kanban”?
300
A program-level face-to-face event that includes presentation of vision, team planning breakouts, and commitment to release objectives.
What is “PSI Planning or Release Planning”?
300
This modified number sequence is used to help the team avoid too much precision that slows the estimation process of stories or features.
What is the "Fibonacci Sequence"?
300
The Agile term for any set period of time that is set aside for an event, meeting, or process.
What is a "Timebox"?
400
This person prioritizes the Team Backlog.
Who is a Product Owner?
400
It provides a view of the intended deliverables such as Features and, Epics, over a timeline of 3-12 months.
What is the “Roadmap”?
400
A scrum ceremony where the team demonstrates the results of the work done.
What is the “Sprint Demo or Team Demo”?
400
This sizing method is abbreviated as “WSJF.”
What is "Weighted Shortest Job First"?
400
The action a team should take when they receive a request to work on an unplanned high-priority item in the middle of a sprint.
What is "tell them to discuss this with the product owner"?
500
This person facilitates program-level execution and events, manages risk, and drives program-level continuous improvement.
Who is the “Release Train Engineer”?
500
This Scrum meeting takes place once every 2 weeks, and provides team insight into areas that require improvement or modification.
What is the "Sprint Retrospective" meeting?
500
The variable that has the greatest impact on the calculated estimate in the WSJF value when estimating a story.
What is the "Job Size" or "Effort"?
500
Similar to a freeway work can flow better by reducing this?
What is "WIP" or "Work in Process" or "Work in Progress"?