Agile Practices/Mindsets
These values are used to estimate a unit of work.
What are story points?
A time during which the team meets to reflect on the past week and develop actionable items or improvements in process for future weeks
What is the sprint retrospective?
This is a brief requirement expressed as persona + need + purpose from the perspective of the user.
What is a User Story?
This role prioritizes backlog.
Who is product owner?
When we calculate the average number of story points a team accomplishes during an sprint, and use that number to plan our future sprints and releases, we're using this metric.
What is "Velocity" ?
This action is recommended when a story, or unit of work, becomes too large.
What is story splitting?
Adding/removing stories, sizing stories, re-prioritizing stories.
What is "Backlog Grooming"? (Backlog Refinement)
Usually a collection of related user stories for a desired functionality.
What is a Feature?
Self organized and self managed group of individuals
Who is an agile team?
Graph that depicts the quantity of work in a given state, showing arrivals, time in queue, quantity in queue, and completed.
What is Cumulative Flow Diagram ?
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 meeting "kicks" off the current sprint and has the group commit to a group of stories.
What is the Sprint Planning meeting ?
Criteria of user story to be deemed as complete.
What is Acceptance Criteria ?
This person is not part of core Agile team, but contributes towards impediment removal and helps march towards the vision.
Who is lean Agile leader?
Graph that shows how much work has been completed over total scope of work.
What is Burn Up ?
The maximum capacity amount of hours per day for a team member.
What is six ?
This daily huddle to discuss any immediate impediments and ensure the team is on track to deliver the commitments.
What is the Daily Standup?
A story aimed at answering a question or gathering information, rather than at producing shippable product.
What is a Spike ?
Who defines what "done" means?
Who is the team ?
Measure that shows elapsed time when work starts on a work item until it's ready for delivery.
What is Cycle Time ?
When a major change is introduced in an Agile team (e.g., resource, strategy) this gets impacted.
What is "Velocity of team" ?
This meeting ensure the expectation of Stakeholders/PO with team's deliverables is met.
What is Sprint Demo/Review?
The standard planning Poker Card set contains the values.....
What are "1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13...."
Responsible for facilitating the Scrum process and ensuring the team is delivering value.
Who is Scrum Master ?
Graph that shows how much work is left within a given time limit.
What is Burn down ?
This team is capable of maximizing the delivery as the members are T shaped or generalized specialists.
What is cross functional team ?
This activity is leveraged by the Scrum Master to build trust and relationships among the team members.
What is Team Building ?
Stakeholders' Plan of action of how a product or solution will evolve over time. Provides crucial context for the team's work.
What is a product roadmap ?
Defines & funds a product roadmap and is directly affected by the outcome of the product delivery.
Who is Stakeholder ?
The amount of value delivered in each sprint, enabling you to predict the amount of work the team can get done in future sprints.
What is Velocity Chart ?
Increasing speed and effectiveness at delivering customer value through the reduction of these seven categories of drag in software development: "defects, overproduction, transportation, waiting, inventory, motion, and processing".
What is "Eliminate Waste"?
What is Backlog replenishment ?
Stories should be
Independent
Negotiable
Valuable
Estimable
Small
Testable
What does INVEST mnemonic?
Responsible for creating/developing the product
Who is a developer?
Management wants all metrics buffet
What is "Death by Metrics" ?