Part 2 Flashcards
What characteristics should Scrum Teams have?
They should be self-organized and cross-functional.
What is team model designed to optimize?
- Flexibility
- Creativity
- Productivity
What is a self-organized team?
They choose how best to accomplish their work without direction from anyone outside of the team.
What is a cross functional team?
Teams have all competencies needed to accomplish the work without depending on others outside of the team.
What does the Scrum Team deliver?
- Products iteratively and incrementally to maximize on feedback opportunities.
- Incremental deliveries of “Done” product to ensure a potentially useful version of a working product is avail.
What do Product Owners do?
- Maximizes the value of the product resulting from the work of the Dev Team.
- The method varies widely.
- Is solely responsible for management of product backlog.
How many people are on the Product Owner committee?
1!
The product owner may represent a committee in the Product backlog, but anyone wanting to change that log must speak with the product owner.
What is needed for Product Owners to succeed?
- Respect for his or her decisions.
- Product owner decisions are visible in the product backlog and order of it and no one can force the dev team to work from a different req. set.
What is involved in product backlog management? Pt 1
- Clear expression of product backlog items
- Ordering the items in the product backlog to best achieve goals and missions
- Optimizing the value of the work the dev team performs
What is involved in product backlog management? Pt 2
- Ensuring that the product backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the scrum team will work on next.
- Ensuring the dev team understands items in the product backlog to the level needed.
What is a Dev Team?
A team of professionals who do the work of delivering a potentially releasable increment of “done” product at the end of each sprint.
What do organizations empower dev teams to do and why?
Organize and manage their own work..
To optimize the dev teams overall efficiency and effectiveness.
What size should a dev team be?
Small enough to be nimble but large enough to complete significant work in a sprint.
What happens if the team is too small?
- Interaction decreases and as result so does productivity.
2. Skill restraints are possible effecting the teams ability to produce a potentially releasable increment.
What happens if a team is too LARGE?
- Coordination becomes hard.
2. Generate too much complexity for an empirical process to be useful.