A lightweight development framework that is heavily influenced by lean principles. A visible, work-in-progress limiting pull system.
What is Kanban?
100
Four key values and twelve principles that guide an iterative and people-centric approach to software development.
What is the Agile Manifesto?
100
Owner of the Team Backlog and single voice to the Team on what, when and why backlog items are required.
Who is the Product Owner?
100
Describes what a product or service does and the benefit(s) it will provide. Used to bridge the gap between Initiatives and User Stories.
What is a Feature?
100
The act of identifying all risks and categorizing each risk into one of four categories (Resolved, Owned, Accepted, Mitigated).
What is ROAM'ing Risk?
200
The act of accepting to take on more work based on the available capacity to do so.
What is the act of Pulling work?
200
An agile principle that emphasizes the most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team.
What is face-to-face communication?
200
Servant Leader and scrum expert to the Team who is responsible for ensuring Sprint based events are successful.
Who is the ScrumMaster?
200
The version of a new product or product enhancement that maximizes the amount of validated learning while minimizing the amount of effort as much as possible.
What is Minimal Viable Product (MVP)?
200
To gain alignment between Product Management, Stakeholders and the Release Train on a set of Features and Objects that the Release Train is committing to over the next Program Increment.
What is the purpose of PI Planning?
300
A lean principle that focuses on Global Optimizations across the entire value stream, rather than Local Optimizations, to increase the overall speed of end-to-end delivery, quality and moral.
What is Optimizing the Whole?
300
The primary measure of progress for an Agile development team.
What is working software?
300
15 minute time-boxed meeting in which a common format includes answering three questions:
- What did you do yesterday?
- What do you plan to do today?
- Are there any impediments in your way?
What is the daily standup (scrum) meeting?
300
Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose.
What are the three key factors towards intrinsic Motivation?
300
A confidence vote performed towards the end of PI Planning after teams present their plans.
What is the Fist of Five?
400
A lean principles that emphasizes the removal of any act or function that doesn't add value, such as unnecessary code, unnecessary hand-offs, ineffective communication, partially done work, task switching, etc.
What is Eliminate Waste?
400
A statement of value that advocates making quick, pragmatic decisions based on the most up-to-date information available.
What is Responding to Change over Following a Plan?
400
A regular, repeatable work cycle that is typically 1 - 4 weeks long. This time-box allows a Scrum Team to focus on their planned work.
What is a sprint/iteration?
400
The development time-box (or duration) that sets the cadence for program value delivery through scheduled releases of the Release Train.
What is a Program Increment (PI)?
400
A visual board used to identify when Features are targeted to be done, which Team owns a Feature, dependencies across Features, key Milestones, and any external dependencies.
What is the Program Board?
500
A Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement of working practices, personal efficiencies, etc.
What is kaizen?
500
Asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is known at the time. Three pillars consist of: Transparency, Inspection and Adaption.
What is Empirical Process Control Theory?
500
Self-organizing, self-managing. They are responsible for delivering the highest value backlog items within a sprint/iteration.
Who is the Scrum Team?
500
A long-lived team of agile teams. Using a common cadence, each team has the dedicated team members necessary to continuously define, build, test and deliver value.
What is an Agile Release Train (ART)?
500
Typically takes place at the end of Day 1 of PI Planning. Leaders come together to review planning progress thus far and discuss any necessary adjustments needed for Day 2.
What is the Leadership Review & Problem Solving session?