jira

Question 1

An epic is

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a large user story

Question 2

A user story is a

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feature

Question 3

User stories are formatted like

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As a (role), I want (feature), so that (benefit)

Question 4

The list of features is called

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product backlog

Question 5

The scrum masters job is

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make sure the project is progressing, the team members have the tools they need, he sets up meetings, monitors the work being done, and schedules release planning

Question 6

The user stories that are chosen to be built go into the

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release backlog

Question 7

the user stories in the release backlog get

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prioritized by the team, and then the amount of time for each story is estimated. Large user stories are sometimes split up into smaller ones

Question 8

You can estimate the total amount of work that needs to get done by

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summing all the estimates for all the user stories in the release backlog.

Question 9

The best way to estimate the amount of work for each product is to

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estimate hours. Note: some people use story points, where they compare the difficulty to small component with a known level of difficulty.

Question 10

The estimate times usually get put into

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1h, 2h, 4h, 8h
2d, 3d, 5d, 10d
1m, 2m, 3m, 6m

Question 11

a sprint is

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a milestone between 2 and 30 days, where you do a set of user stories that will be ship ready together. The goal is to get a subset of the release backlog into a ship-ready state.

Question 12

At the end of each sprint you should have

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a fully tested product with all the features of the sprint 100% tested.

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a release backlog gets broken down into a

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multiple sprint backlogs

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A burndown chart is

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a graph of all the remaining work over every day in either a sprint or release.

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The slope of the turndown chart can help you predict

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How long the sprint or release will take. AKA burndown velocity.

Question 16

As a team member works on a user story, they must

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update the card with how much more time is required to complete the user story.

Question 17

A daily scrum is

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a stand up 15 minute meeting where every team member tells what they accomplished since the last meeting, and what their blockers are.

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After sprints are completed you hold a

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sprint retrospective where the team reflects on what went well and what needs improvement

Question 19

Jira: The default assignee is

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the person who gets automatically assigned new issues.