Definitions
What does Shu Ha Ri mean?
Follow the rules, bend the rules, break the rules
What is the more common/interchangeable word for Sprint Demo?
Sprint Review
Who is the voice of the customer, maximizes the value of the product, and provides customer feedback to the scrum team?
Product Owner
How many values are there? How many principals are there in the Agile Manifesto?
4 values, 12 principals
The umbrella term for practices, tools, principals, and values that focus in on iterative development cycles.
Agile
What does the 3-5-3 stand for?
3 roles, 5 ceremonies, 3 artifacts
Who coaches the team on scrum, fosters self organization, and helps the team understand agile practices?
Scrum Master
This word was first introduced in 1986 in a Harvard Business article. It was a rugby term.
Scrum
A time-boxed investigation or research effort resulting from a user story that cannot be estimated.
Spike
What three questions do you ask during stand-up?
What did you complete yesterday? What are you going to complete today? What's impeding or blocking you?
What do we call anyone with the skills needed to deliver value?
Developers
What year was the Agile Manifesto written?
2001
What five items can be in a product backlog?
User stories, epics, defects, technical debts, and spikes
Who should attend the sprint retrospective?
Just the Scrum Team. External stakeholders should not participate.
How big should a scrum team be?
7+/-2
In 1943, who revolutionized the kanban system?
Taiichi Ohno
A visible set of conditions that a product backlog item (e.g. User Story) must conform to before a team will commit to working on it.
Definition of Ready
What is the difference between a product backlog and a sprint backlog?
Product backlog are not committed items and a sprint backlog are committed items.
What is the name of the person who buys your product?
The Customer
Name 2 out of the 4 values of the Agile Manifesto.
1. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
2. Working software over comprehensive documentation.
3. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation.
4. Responding to change over following a plan.