Agile
Basics
Basics
This manifesto values "individuals and interactions over processes and tools"
What is Agile Manifesto?
In Scrum, this person facilitates the process and removes obstacles for the team
Who is the Scrum Master?
This process involves quickly building lightweight versions of features to test hypotheses.
What is prototyping or building an MVP (Minimum Viable Product)?
This velocity metric tells you how many story points a team completes on average per sprint.
What is team velocity?
Bob's team frequently misses sprint goals. He decides to hold this ceremony more effectively.
What is Sprint retrospective?
Agile promotes responding to this over following a plan.
What is Change?
Unlike Scrum, Kanban does not use these time boxed Iterations.
What are Sprints?
This document forecast the vision, goals, and high-level plan for how a product will achieve its objectives over time.
What is a product roadmap?
This metric measures how long a work item takes from start to finish.
What is Cycle Time?
The stakeholders are requesting frequent changes mid-sprint. Bob reminds them that this is usually handled during this event.
What is Sprint Planning?
This term refers to a time-boxed iteration where teams deliver potentially shippable product increments
What is a Sprint
This visual tool is used in Kanban to manage workflow.
What is Kanban board?
This popular framework helps product managers evaluate what to build by balancing value, feasibility, and usability
What is the product/market fit framework?
This metric captures the rate of new issues or requests coming in.
What is throughput (or arrival rate)?
Bob uses a burn-up chart to show progress instead of burndown. He is trying to emphasize this positive trend.
What is scope increase or completed work?
In agile, the process of continuously improving team performance after each sprint is called this.
What is retrospective
This Scrum event is held daily and usually limited to 15 minutes.
What is the Daily Standup (or Daily Scrum)?
This framework helps product managers prioritize features by categorizing them into basic, performance, and excitement factors based on customer satisfaction.
What is the Kano model?
This model uses four criteria to prioritize projects, including a measure of potential audience size and expected benefit.
What is RICE?
(Reach, Impact, Confidence, Effort)
After switching to Kanban, Bob's team struggles with priorities. He introduces this meeting to align on top tasks.
What is a backlog refinement meeting?
This principle emphasizes that the best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
What is one of the 12 Agile principles?
In Kanban, this concept helps limit the number of tasks in progress at any given time.
What is WIP (Work In Progress) limit?
This adaptable animal symbolizes product managers.
What is a chameleon?
(Known for its adaptability and ability to blend into various environments and navigate changing market conditions and diverse team dynamics.)
This burndown chart tracks remaining work across the sprint timeline.
What is sprint burndown chart?
Bob observes a bottleneck in QA. To address it, she applies this Lean principle to limit handoffs and delays.
What is flow efficiency (or limiting WIP)?