Ceremonies
This ceremony enables the team to constantly improve. Without it, teams can become stagnant.
What is the Retrospective?
Individuals & interactions over processes and tools.
Working software over comprehensive documentation.
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation.
Responding to change over following a plan.
What is the Agile Manifesto?
This is valued more over following a plan.
What is responding to change?
This metric should never be used to compare one team to another.
What is velocity?
This ceremony is used to ensure the backlog is full and that the team has stories that are ready.
What is Backlog Grooming?
Name two forms of Agile.
What are Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming, Feature-Driven Development, etc.?
This is the primary measure of progress.
What is Working Software?
It is this person's responsibility to prevent interruptions to the team’s workflow.
Who is the Scrum Master?
In this ceremony, the team determines which stories they will complete in that sprint.
What is Sprint Planning?
These are the three roles required on an agile team.
What are Product Owner, Engineer, and Scrum Master?
These are the 5 values of Scrum.
What are Courage, Focus, Commitment, Respect, and Openness?
This backlog contains tasks and hour estimates.
What is the Sprint Backlog?
In this ceremony, the team reviews progress from right to left, with the focus on updating the plan to get items to done.
What is Daily Stand-Up?
Term used to describe how much work a team can get done within a given time-box.
What is velocity?
This scrum principle requires the team and organization to continually assess "are we better off than yesterday?" and, if not, "what can we do about it?"
What is Adaptation?
This chart shows the rate at which work is completed and how much work remains in a Sprint.
What is Sprint Burndown Chart?
This optional ceremony is for Scrum Masters to discuss dependencies and to escalate impediments to leadership.
What is the Scrum of Scrums?
A set of statements, each with a clear pass/fail result used to identify if a story is done or not.
What are acceptance criteria?
This scrum principle requires presenting the facts as is (good news, and bad news); that significant aspects of the process and outcomes are visible to all people involved.
What is Transparency?
This is what INVEST stands for as it pertains to user stories and acceptance criteria.
What are Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable?