Agile
Name a benefit of using Agile
What is...
Enjoyable, productivity, ROI, quality, transparency, time to market, happy stakeholders, collaborative, happy team, build the right product
What is the acronym for a good user story?
What is INVEST
What is a characteristic a self-organizing team will have?
What is...
autonomy - team makes decisions that affect team
heavy communication/collaboration
takes ownership of how they work, manages the work and continually improves
pulls work for themselves based on capacity
continuously enhance their own skills
aren't afraid to challenge or ask questions
Name a Kanban foundational principle
What is...
start with what you do now
agree to purse incremental, evolutionary change
respect current roles/process/responsibilities/titles
encourage acts of leadership at all levels
What are the 3 components of the operating model?
What is structure, governance, measurement
Name one of the principles supporting the Agile Manifesto
What is...
Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer’s competitive advantage.
Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential.
The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.
what is card, conversation & confirmation
What is one of the unhealthiest types of conflict within a team?
What is passive aggressive behavior
What does WIP stand for and what is it?
Name one of the Agile Manifesto values
What is...
Individuals & interactions over processes & tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
What is everything
What are team dynamics?
Name something you do to manage flow
What is...
eliminate waste
maximize throughput
identify bottlenecks
modify wip limits to optimize flow
modify steps in the process flow to increase flow
Agile promotes ________________ which leads to excellence
What is continual improvement
Name one pattern to decompose user stories
What is
spikes, paths, interfaces, data, rules, user type, simple v complex, happy path, duplicate data, bronze plate v gold plate, nonfunctional requirements, steps to do something
What is an example of healthy conflict?
What is...
po/team - po will push team to do more
stakeholders/po - stakeholders will push PO to get more done, faster
coach/team - team will push back on coach when learning a new way of working
team/team - team members will have conflict amongst themselves on how to do things
What is one of the agendas of Kanban for implementing change?
What is
sustainability
service orientation
survivability
What is the differentiator between "doing agile" and "being agile"?
What is the agile mindset
What is the maximum amount of times a story can be split?
Conflict leads to better solutions and _________ __________ & ____________
Describe what should occur in a Kanban daily standup meeting
what is...the team should walk the board from right to left asking what needs to be done to finish the work; determine what the team will finish today; determine why things are not moving and plan to remove the impediments if possible; verify priorities, ensure WIP limits are enforced and no one is working on anything not on the board