04 Lecture

Question 1

What are the features of a Defined Process?

Answer 1

• Planned
• Follows strict rules
• Avoids deviations

Question 2

What are the features of an Empirical Process?

Answer 2

• Not entirely planned

- inspect and adapt

Question 3

Define the Defined Process Control Model

Answer 3

• Requires that every piece of work is completely understood

- Given a well-defined set of inputs, the same outputs are generated every time

Question 4

Define the Empirical Process Control Model

Answer 4

• Imperfectly defined process, not all pieces of work are completely understood
• Expects the unexpected: control and risk management is exercised through
  frequent inspection

Question 5

When to use the Empirical Process Control Model

Answer 5

• Change is frequent and cannot be ignored

- Change of requirements, change of technology, change in the organization, people change too.

Question 6

Definition of scrum in agile processes

Answer 6

Scrum is a technique that deals with interruptions (change)

Question 7

What are the 3 Scrum Artifacts

Answer 7

1) Product Backlog
2) Sprint Backlog
3) Potentially Shippable Product Increment

Question 8

What is the Product Backlog?

Answer 8

List of requirements for the whole product

Question 9

What is the Sprint Backlog?

Answer 9

List of requirements and tasks for one iteration (“Sprint”)

Question 10

What is the Potentially Shippable Product Increment?

Answer 10

Release to the Product Owner that contains all results of the current Sprint

Question 11

Which Scrum Meetings do you know?

Answer 11

1) Project Kickoff Meeting -> Product Backlog
2) Sprint Planning Meeting -> Sprint Backlog
3) Daily Scrum Meeting (Standing)
4) Sprint Review Meeting -> Potentially Shippable Product Increment
5) Retrospective

Question 12

What are the 3 Roles in the Scrum Team

Answer 12

1) Scrum Master
2) Product Owner
3) Developer

Question 13

What are the responsibilities of the Product Owner?

Answer 13

• Defines the product

- Responsible for results

Question 14

What are the responsibilities of the Scrum Master?

Answer 14

• Resolves impediments

- Responsible for the process

Question 15

What are the responsibilities of the Developer?

Answer 15

• Self-organized and cross-functional

- Realizes the product increments

Question 16

Define a Sprint

Answer 16

• Time-box (up to one month) during which the team creates a potentially shippable product increment
• Sprints have consistent durations throughout a project
• A new Sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint

Question 17

What is the Product Backlog

Answer 17

• Collection of items (e.g. user stories, scenarios, etc.) prioritized by the Product Owner
• The Product Backlog can always be changed and reprioritized during the projects
• Created on the basis of the problem statement during the Project Kickoff Meeting or in the phase before the actual project starts

Question 18

What priorities do you have in the Product Backlog?

Answer 18

• Critical
• Major
• Minor
• unimportant

(Done by the product owner)

Question 19

What levels of difficulties are there

Answer 19

• S
• M
• L
• XL

Question 20

Properties of a good User Story

Answer 20

• Independent
• Negotiable
• Valuable and Vertical
• Estimable
• Small
• Testable

Question 21

The User Story Template

Answer 21

As ,
I can
so that

Question 22

Define is an Acceptance Criteria

Answer 22

Conditions that a software product must satisfy to be accepted by a user, customer or other stakeholders

Question 23

Define Scenarios

Answer 23

An instance of a use case. A scenario represents a concrete sequence of interactions between one or more actors and the system.

Question 24

Relation between User Stories, Use Cases and Scenarios

Answer 24

• Scenarios are typically created during Analysis
• Use Cases and Scenarios typically cover a larger scope and are more formal than User Stories
• User Stories are usually created during requirements elicitation