Agile Flashcards

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Agile Manifesto

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Individuals and Interactions over processes and tools
Working Software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

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Product Owner - Customer

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The person responsible for determining the priorities of the product backlog. Responsible for maximizing value and manages (sets priority) product backlog.

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ScrumMaster - Team Leader - Agile Project Manager - Agile Coach

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Person who is designated to facilitate Agile methodologies and remove impediments from the team. Can also be considered a mentor at times.

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Sponsor

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Senior member of the organization who advocates for the project and team (Champion, cheerleader)

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Agile Five Values

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Courage
Focus
Commitment
Respect
Openness

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Agile Three Pillars

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Transparency
Inspection
Adaptation

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Development Team

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Cross-functional team that builds the product and are self-organized (no more than 12 members)

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Daily Scrum

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15 mins
1. What have I done since the last daily scrum?
2. What do I plan to do today?
3. Are there any impediments to my progress

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Interchangeable terms

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Sprint = Iteration
Sprint Backlog = Iteration Backlog
Daily Scrum = Daily Standup
Sprint Review = Review or Demo

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Information Radiators

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Agile Artifacts that project the status of the project so it is visible and transparent.
Kanban Board
Backlogs
Burn-up/Burn-down Charts
Flowcharts
Roadmaps
Vision Statements

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WIP Limits

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Sets limits on the amount of work in progress (WIP) that can be done at one time to speed up overall productivity and efficiency. Goal of reducing bottlenecks

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Velocity

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The average amount of work a team completes during a sprint

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Throughput

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How quickly a team can work through the backlog

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Agile Workflow

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Vision Charter Roadmap ->
Epics/Features/User Stories ->
Product Backlog ->

Sprint Planning -> Selected product backlog -> Sprint planning -> Sprint Backlog -> 2-4 Week Sprint -> New Functionality -> Sprint Review (Demo) -> Retrospective -> Sprint Planning

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Vision

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“Elevator Pitch” to describe the goals based on the market and customer needs

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Roadmap

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A strategic document and plan which guides when the product will be delivered and how the product will meet objectives and the product vision.

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Project Charter

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Identifies the business need and is signed by someone in authority within the organization. Includes high-level requirements

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Release Plan

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Initial idea or focal point for the team to focus on. Shows the highest priority features to be released first. (Ensure value early)

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Sprint/Iteration Backlog

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The list of tasks identified by the team to be completed during the sprint

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Affinity Estimating

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A method used by agile teams to rapidly estimate the sizes of features on the backlog. In general teams choose a way to categorize relative size and assign a point value to the sizes.

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Planning Poker

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Utilizes Fibonacci number sequence (adding two previous numbers to get the next number) those numbers are used to identify relative size of feature/user story. If the numbers are close there is consensus

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Five finger voting

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0 - no vote, discussion
1 - reservations, need changes
2 - reservations, will not support
3 - reservations, but will support
4 - buy-in, will support
5 - completely agree