Facilitating Iteration Execution Flashcards
True or False: Iteration planning should last less than 4 hours.
True
True or False: The Iteration planning event is for and by the team.
True
5 steps of Iteration planning:
1) Establish capacity
2) xxxxx
3) Detailing stories
4) Developing Iteration Goals
5) Committing to Iteration Goals
2) Story analysis and estimating
Tasks to Establish Capacity:
1Team applies capacity allocation to the Team Backlog
2 Team quantifies capacity to perform work in the upcoming Iteration
3_Each team member determines their availability, acknowledging
time off and other potential duties
4_The ________ in collaboration with the teams select the highest priority backlog items for each ‘slice’ of the capacity allocation to
implement in an Iteration
Product Owner
Story analysis and estimating:
1) The ______ ______presents stories in order of priority
1) Product Owner
Story analysis and estimating:
Each ______
- Is discussed and analyzed by the team
- Has its acceptance criteria defined and refined
- Is estimated
Story
Story analysis and estimating:
The process continues until the estimation
of the Stories has reached the _______ of
the team
Capacity
True or False: Many teams break their stories into tasks and forecast them in hours to better understand their capacity and capabilities.
True
When tasking stories - _____ _____ discuss:
► Who would be the best person to accomplish it? ► Approximately how long would it take? ► What dependencies might it have to other Stories?
Team members
3 main purposes of iteration goals:
1) _____ team members to a common purpose
2) Align teams to common Program Increment (Pl)
Objectives and manage dependencies
3) Provide transparency and management information
Align
Committing to the Iteration Goals:
______ ________ are not just to do the work. They are committed
to other teams, the program, and the stakeholders.
Team Commitments
Committing to the Iteration Goals:
A team meets its committment by doing everything they said they would do or immediately ______ a ______.
Raising a concern
True or False: Too much holding to a commitment can lead to
burnout , inflexibility, and quality problems .
True
True or False: Too little commitment can lead to unpredictability and
lack of focus on results.
True
Scrum Master Role in Iteration Planning (Best Approaches)
- Maintain a ______
Timebox
Scrum Master Role in Iteration Planning (Best Approaches)
*Ensure that the team commits to the Iteration _______
Goals
Scrum Master Role in Iteration Planning (Best Approaches)
*Verify that the ______ _______ or other managers don’t influence the team to overcommit
Product Owner
Scrum Master Role in Iteration Planning (Best Approaches)
Challenge the team to ________ their previous accomplishments
Exceed
Scrum Master Role in Iteration Planning (Best Approaches)
Ensure that the improvement items from the _______ are put into effect
Retrospective
Scrum Master Role in Iteration Planning (Best Approaches)
Ensure time is _______ for technical debt activities
allocated
The Scrum Master’s role in Iteration Planning (Common anti-patterns)
*Delving too deep into _______ discussions
Technical
The Scrum Master’s role in Iteration Planning (Common anti-patterns)
*__________ is unrealistic
Commitment
The Scrum Master’s role in Iteration Planning (Common anti-patterns)
*________ and load are exactly the same
Capacity
The Scrum Master’s role in Iteration Planning (Common anti-patterns)
*Scrum Master is more focused on the _______ role
than the facilitator’s role
technical
The Scrum Master’s role in Iteration Planning (Common anti-patterns)
The team under commits due to fear of _______
Failure
The Scrum Master’s role in Iteration Planning (Common anti-patterns)
*No time is reserved for _______ activities
support
Communication and synchronization are supported by what to activities:
Daily Stand ups and the meet after agenda
Daily Stand Up Anti-patterns:
True or False: Poor DSU’s may be a symptom of a deeper problem that requires a more systematic approach.
True
Daily Stand Up Anti-patterns:
*Lack of collective code _________
Ownership
Daily Stand Up Anti-patterns:
Poor _______ of the team members during the Iteration
collaboration
Daily Stand Up Anti-patterns:
_______ verification and integration during the Iteration (e.g., we are working on something, and we think it’s good)
Infrequent
Daily Stand Up Anti-patterns:
Perpetual, ________ conflict within the team
unresolved
Scrum master role in Tracking iteration progress (Best Practices):
*_________ the mid PI re-planning
Facilitate
Scrum master role in Tracking iteration progress (Best Practices):
*Encourage the _______ to point out as early as possible
if they think they will miss Iteration Goals or Pl
Objectives. Communicate to and from the scrum of
scrums
team
Scrum master role in Tracking iteration progress (Best Practices):
Encourage the use of ________ practices
Engineering
Scrum master role in Tracking iteration progress (Best Practices):
Make sure _______ are not pushed to the IP Iteration
defects
Scrum master role in Tracking iteration progress (Best Practices):
Facilitate _________ for the next PI
preparation
Scrum master role in Tracking iteration progress (Best Practices):
*Support ________ activities
Release
Scrum master role in Tracking iteration progress (Anti-Patterns):
*Team gets no _______ from scrum of scrums
Input
Scrum master role in Tracking iteration progress (Anti-Patterns):
*Teams are unwilling to ______ or add objectives
mid-PI
change
Scrum master role in Tracking iteration progress (Anti-Patterns):
*Scrum Master does all the synchronization, so the
team is _________ of doing it themselves
incapable
