Roles
Product Owner
what is the person whom holds the vision for the product and is responsible for maintaining, prioritizing, and updating the product backlog?
Agile
what is the name coined for the wider set of ideas that Scrum falls within?
A daily scrum
what is a brief daily team meeting to share progress, report impediments, and make work commitments?
an epic
what is a very large User Story that is eventually broken down into smaller stories; epics are often used as placeholders for new ideas that have not been thought out fully?
Impediment
what is anything that prevents the team from meeting their potential? If organizational, it is the Scrum Master's responsibility to eliminate it.
Scrum master
what is a servant leader to the team, responsible for removing impediments and making sure the process runs smoothly so the team can be as productive as possible?
estimation
What is the process of agreeing on a size measurement for the stories in a Product Backlog?
Retrospective
what is a session where the Team and Scrum Master reflect on the process and make commitments to improve?
Sprint Burndown
what is a visible chart that indicates on a daily basis the amount of work remaining in the sprint?
Impediment Backlog
what is a visible list of impediments in a priority order?
Scrum Team
what is a cross-functional group that is responsible for delivering the product?
Time-boxing
what is the setting of a duration for every activity and having it last exactly that (i.e. - neither meetings nor sprints are ever lengthened, ever)?
Sprint
what is a time-boxed iteration?
User Story
what is the feature that is added to the backlog that is commonly referred to as a story and has a specific suggested structure? The structure of a story is: "As a <user type> I want to <do some action> so that <desired result>"
Product Backlog
what is a prioritized list of stories that are waiting to be worked on? Items include user stories, epics, and technical stories
pig
what is a term for a team member, can talk in scrum meetings?
scrum
what is an iterative and incremental agile software development method for managing software projects and product or application development? It focuses on project management institutions where it is difficult to plan ahead
Planning Poker
what is a consensus-based technique for estimating effort for user stories, mostly used to estimate effort or relative size of user stories in software development?
the agile approach to documentation
what is working software over documentation?
Velocity
what is the rate at which a team completes work, usually measured in story points?
what is a chicken?
Term for anyone not on the team, not allowed to speak in the Scrum
Servant leadership
what can be most likely associated with the participative management style? the practice of a participative leadership style involves employees in decision-making. More extensive tasks are delegated.
Sprint Review
what is the meeting held at the end of each sprint in which the Scrum team shows what they accomplished during the sprint; typically this takes the form of a demo of the new features. The sprint review meeting is intentionally kept very informal. With limited time allocated for Sprint review prep. A sprint review meeting should not become a distraction or significant detour for the team; rather, it should be a natural result of the sprint.
Release Burndown Chart
what is a visible chart to show progress towards a release?
Definition of Done (DoD)
what is the exit-criteria to determine whether a product backlog item is complete? In many cases the DoD requires that all regression tests should be successful.