Competencies Flashcards
What are the Scrum Competencies
- Understanding and Applying the Scrum Framework
- Developing people and teams
- Managing Products with Agility
- Developing and Delivering Products Professionally
- Evolving the Agile Organization
Competencies 1: Understanding and Applying the Scrum Framework
SSSADEE
Empiricism Scrum Values Scrum Team Events Artifacts Done Scaling
Competencies 2: Developing People and Teams
SFLCT
Self-Managing Teams Facilitation Leadership Styles Coaching & Mentoring Teaching
Competencies 3: Managing Products with Agility
FBSPP
Forecasting & Release Planning Product Vision Product Value Product Backlog Management Business Strategy Stakeholders & Customers
Competencies 4: Developing and Delivering Products Professionally
CCCOME
Emergent Software Development Managing Technical Risk Continuous Quality Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery Optimizing Flow
Competencies 5: Evolving the Agile Organization
POE
Organizational Design & Culture
Portfolio Planning
Evidence Based Management™
Managing Products with Agility
What defines the purpose that the product aspires to fulfill. It is defined by the value that the product strives to deliver. Practitioners should be able to describe _____ _____ is and what techniques should be employed to both build a vision and make it transparent. They should also understand how to use a product vision to drive strategy and execution, and how to build a vision that motivates, communicates, and provides constraints for delivery.
Product Vision
Managing Products with Agility
The ultimate goal is to deliver value to the customer and stakeholders. But value is complex, made up of long-term and short-term impact, internal and external value, and indirect and direct value. The practitioner should be able to understand how to define ______ ______ for context, and apply it to the work they and the team do. They should be able to manage others’ understanding of value and apply different techniques and practices for defining, communicating and measuring value. They should understand the connection between value and empirical process, and how value should be the driving factor of the Product Goal.
Product Value
Managing Products with Agility
What is a key artifact within Scrum? It is an ordered list that describes what is needed in the product. The _____ _______ provides transparency into what is happening to the product for the team, organization, and stakeholders. The practitioner should be able to describe what a ____ ____ is and apply a variety of techniques for managing the backlog. They should also understand how to make the _____ ______transparent and how to manage stakeholder expectations associated with the backlog.
Product Backlog Management
Managing Products with Agility
A product lives within the context of a ____ ______. That strategy describes how the Product Vision will be executed in a broader context. A practitioner will understand techniques for exposing business strategy and show how it drives the product. They will understand approaches, such as Lean Startup and Design Thinking, and how those affect the flow of ideas from strategy to execution. They will understand how an empirical process affects the execution and feedback of a strategy.
Business Strategy
Managing Products with Agility:
Effectively working with ______ and _____ is a key skill for everyone on the Scrum Team. Scrum changes the nature of the interactions, encouraging more frequent collaboration and more open dialogue. The practitioner will understand the implication moving to an Agile approach will have to their ______and _______and also become familiar with practices and stances that will help them work and collaborate in a more agile way.
Stakeholders and Customers
Understanding the Scrum Framework: Key Focus Areas:
A cornerstone to Scrum and Agile. A practitioner will be able to apply the concepts of the empirical process to the problems they encounter. That means they can describe problems in terms of learning, break problems down into the smallest increments that will generate valuable evidence, and execute in an empirical way. By learning and practicing the skills in this Focus Area, a practitioner will become an expert in the application of scientific methods to complex problems, understanding why and how to apply an empirical process.
Empiricism
Understanding the Scrum Framework: Key Focus Areas:
For agility to thrive, the culture of the organization must support the fundamental concepts of agility. A practitioner will understand both the _____ _____ - Focus, Respect, Openness, Commitment, and Courage - and demonstrate that they can apply them in the reality of organizations whose values do not match those of Scrum. By living the ____ _____ and helping others to apply them, learners will create an environment where empirical process, self- organization, and continual improvement will be more successful.
Scrum Values
Understanding the Scrum Framework: Key Focus Areas:
The ____ _____ consists of one Product Owner, one Scrum Master, and Developers. The skilled practitioner will understand how accountability is shared amongst team members and how they take on work in the context of their Product Goal.
Scrum Team
Understanding the Scrum Framework: Key Focus Areas:
The Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective are what?
All ____ are time-boxed and enable progress through adaptation and transparency. The practitioner will understand the ____ and be able to practice _____, but more importantly be able to apply these _____ in complex situations and at scale. The____are used to uphold empirical process control, through the three pillars of Scrum: transparency, inspection, and adaptation.
Events
