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Adaptive Planning (12%) Flashcards

1
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Relative Sizing

- 2 things about it

A
  1. Point based

2. Identify a representative standard to measure against

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Affinity Estimating

- name 3 things about it

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  1. Horizontally arrange according to size
  2. S M L XL, etc
  3. Used to estimate a large # of stories
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Planning Poker

  • 2 characteristics
  • 5 steps
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C1 - Iterative
C2 - Fibonacci 
Steps
1. Customer reads story
2. Devs ask questions
3. Team estimates individually 
4. Team shows their estimates and discusses outliers
5. Team re-estimates until more convergence

Note: associated mostly with XP and Scrum

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Wideband Delphi

- 2 main characteristics

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  1. Experts estimating…
  2. Anonymously

Note: Wideband differs from traditional because it involves discussion to get consensus

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Timeboxing

- What is Parkinson’s Law or Student Syndrome?

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Will wait till last possible to minute to get something done

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Ideal Time

- what is it

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  1. Assumes NO interruptions
  2. Everything needed is at fingertips
    - is used for agile planning
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Elapsed Time

- what is it

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  • Actual time that considers interruptions
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Velocity

- what does it measure and when is it measured

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completed work (in story points)...
during an iteration
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Velocity

- what is the goal with the measurement

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achieve constant velocity from iteration to iteration

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Velocity

- T/F - is a measurement that can help to compare the relative effectiveness of 2 teams or projects

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FALSE

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Burn Rate

- what is the key thing this is measuring

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Cost over a period of time.

Team’s combined cost X # of iterations X days per iteration = BURN RATE

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Adaptive Planning

- name the 4 reasons that we may have to adaptively plan?

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  1. Stakeholder feedback - it’s not what they want
  2. Changes
  3. Defects
  4. Retrospectives - we found a better way or something wasn’t working
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Adaptive Changes

- name 3 of 5 changes that effect planning

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  1. Backlog grooming, we find out more or we didn’t get enough early on
  2. Budget changes
  3. Priorities change
  4. Milestones change
  5. Team/Stakeholders change their minds
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Backlog Grooming

- name the main goal for it

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  • to improve the value described by the backlog

- - done through refinement, or deletion of stories

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Backlog Grooming

- how much time should be spent doing it and who should do it?

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5-10% of the TEAMS time

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Escaped Defects

- where are these typically found and by whom

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after dev-complete & by the customer

17
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Process Tailoring

- name 2 things that go with this

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  1. RACI

2. Prioritize work and milestones

18
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What are the 2 main Justification methods used for Portfolio Management?

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  1. Business case - WHY?

2. Benefits Measurements Model

19
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Benefits Measurements Model

- what is the main rule of thumb for these metrics?

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> is always better

20
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Internal Rate of Return is the % of return when ________?

A

The Net Present Value is 0

21
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ROI is calculated how?

A

(Projected Savings(benefits) - Costs) / Costs

22
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Agile planning cycles

- from high level to low level what are the phases?

A 
Portfolio planning (what will be worked on)
Roadmap (product backlog)
Release planning (release backlog)
Iteration planning (iteration backlog)
23
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What goes into Roadmap planning?

A

Milestone releases and themes

24
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What goes into a Release plan?

A

Features and epics

25
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What goes into an Iteration plan?

A

User stories that are then broken down to tasks

26
Q

A Backlog is associated with what acronym and what does it stand for?

A 
DEEP
D - detailed appropriately
E - estimable
E - emergent (not static), i.e. flexible
P - prioritized
27
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As events (releases, sprints, etc) get closer, a LESSER amount of detail is needed, T/F?

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FALSE - more detail is always needed/provided as you get closer to the event that needs it…

28
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Release planning is done for all releases, T/F?

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FALSE, only for the next release

29
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Story Map

- describe the vertical and horizontal axes?

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X: Sequence of features (minimal amt) within a RELEASE
Y: priority of stories within a FEATURE

30
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Story Map vs. WBS

  • what are the 2 words most associated with each
  • what is the main difference between the 2
A

Story Map: “Deaggregation”
WBS: “Decomposition”

Story Map: does not directly reflect 100% of scope
WBS: is 100% of scope

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