This person facilitates team decisions and ensures impediments are removed.
Who is a ScrumMaster?
100
In 2001 several software industry leaders gathered at Snowbird ski resort and published this document describing a now famous approach to software development.
What is the Agile Manifesto?
100
Texas Hold'em is a close cousin of this estimation tool.
What is Planning Poker?
100
This high speed event usually lasts between 2-4 weeks.
What is a Sprint?
100
The depiction showing the progress of work and features completed.
What is a burndown chart?
200
Helps develop and manage quality practices within assigned team.
Who is QA?
200
This is the primary measure of progress for an Agile development team.
What is Working Software?
200
The format is as follows: As a ___ I want to ___ so that ___.
What is a User Story?
200
A tool Scrum teams use to Inspect and Adapt at the end of every development cycle.
What is a Retrospective?
200
The group of people who contribute but are not actively involved during the sprint process.
Who are the chickens?
300
This is the person ultimately responsible for the product. He/She sets the vision and prioritizes the backlog.
Who is the Product Owner?
300
The 2002 Standish Group study reported that 20% of features are used "often" or "always." This is a key reason why Agile projects focus on this.
What is Business Value?
300
A collection of work to implement the vision that is prioritized by business value.
What is the Product Backlog?
300
At the end of a sprint the team demonstrates the product at this meeting.
What is the Sprint Review?
300
The recommended number of hours for a planning meeting based on a two week sprint per the scrum alliance.
What is 4 hours?
400
These are the people who enable the project and for whom the project will produce the agreed-upon benefit(s).
Who are the Stakeholders?
400
Waterfall projects have fixed requirements and usually negotiate Cost and Schedule. Agile projects negotiate this.
What is Scope?
400
The number of estimated story points that the team can complete in a given sprint.
What is the Velocity?
400
A meeting that lasts less than 15 minutes!
What is the Daily Standup or Daily Scrum?
400
This person creates the project plan and dashboard report.
What is a role not defined by scrum?
500
Self organizes/Self assigns
Who is the development team?
500
The list of activities (coding comments, unit testing, integration testing, design documentation, etc.) which support the expected business value?
What is The Definition of Done?
500
In the popular prioritization technique of MoSCoW what does the M stand for.
What is Must Do or Must Have?
500
The two 'ceremonies' that involve getting user stories ready for a new sprint that should never happen at the same time.
What is scoring and planning?
500
The answers to these three key questions need to be recorded in the Description of each User Story