Lean
A lightweight documentation tool to visualize workflow, limiting work-in-progress (WIP), and optimizing flow.
What is a Kanban?
Four key values and twelve principles that guide an iterative and people-centric approach to software development.
What is the Agile Manifesto?
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?
Describes what a product or service does and the benefits provided used to bridge the gap between Initiatives and User Stories.
What is a Feature?
An Agile risk management technique used to categorize, manage, and mitigate risks during PI Planning.
What is ROAM (Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated)?
Team members assign tasks independently and take on more work based on the available capacity to do so.
What is Pulling work or Pull Method?
Highly prioritized for PI Planning, maximizing engagement, building trust, and aligning ARTs efficiently.
What is face-to-face communication?
Servant Leader and scrum expert to the Team who is responsible for ensuring Sprint based events are successful.
Who is the Scrum Master?
An early, minimal version of a new solution that is functional and provides enough value to gather actionable, data-driven insights.
What is Minimal Viable Product (MVP)?
A cadence-based, 2-day event where an ART aligns on a shared mission, defines PI Objectives, and plans work for the next 8-12 weeks.
What is PI Planning?
Applying systems thinking to maximize value delivery across the entire enterprise to accelerate value flow.
What is Optimizing the Whole?
The primary measure of progress for an Agile development team.
What is working software?
A 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?
The driver for high-performing teams, focusing on the internal desire to do work for its own sake rather than external rewards.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
A confidence vote performed towards the end of PI Planning after teams present their plans.
What is Fist of Five?
The removal of any act or function that doesn't add value, such as unnecessary code, unnecessary hand-offs, ineffective communication, partially done work, or task switching.
What is Eliminate Waste?
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?
A regular, repeatable work cycle that is typically 1 - 4 weeks long focusing on planned work.
What is a sprint/iteration?
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)?
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?
A Japanese business philosophy focusing on improving processes, technology, and culture through small, incremental changes.
What is Kaizen?
The practice of making decisions based on observation, experience, and experimentation by implementing the three pillars of Transparency, Inspection and Adaption.
What is Empirical Process Control Theory?
Self-organizing people who deliver the highest value backlog items within a sprint/iteration.
Who is the Scrum Team?
A long-lived team of agile teams consisting of 50-125 people that plan, commit, and execute together on a fixed schedule to deliver value.
What is an Agile Release Train (ART)?
This 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?