Part D: Increment & Release Planning Flashcards
Classic project management
List the key activities and artifacts that arise during classic project management.
Originating Initiating Planning Executing, Monitoring, and Controlling Closing
The roles in Scrum
What are the principal roles involved in a project run using Scrum?
What is the key focus for each of the roles?
Product Owner • Represent the business • Represent the customers • Owns the product backlog • Prioritises stories • Creates acceptance tests • Available to answer team members’ questions
Scrum Master • Scrum expert and advisor • Coach • Impediment bulldozer • Facilitator
Team Member
• Responsible for delivering user stories
• Does all of the development work
• Self-organizes to do the development work
• Owns the estimation process
• Owns the “how to do the work” decisions
• Avoids “not my job”
Scrum meetings
What forms of meeting would you expect to be involved with in Scrum?
When would each generally take place?
Backlog grooming
Before of each sprint
Planning, meeting.
Before/start of every sprint
Daily scrum stand ups
Daily
Sprint Demo. To the customer
End of sprint
Retrospective
Mythical man month
The phrase “mythical man month” was coined by Brooks. What does it mean and what is the significance for software project management?
Mythical man month means that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later”, also known as Brooks law
It means by adding another team member in a late project will not make it faster but slower.
Because the new person needs training, learning of the codebase, setup environment, etc.
DSDM Timeboxing
What is meant by the term “timeboxing”?
Development is done in a series of fixed duration timeboxes, functionality that has to be developed in an iteration is selected in a way so they can fit into these fixed time boxes.
DSDM Timeboxing
What is the equivalent term in Scrum?
Sprint
DSDM Timeboxing
What advice would you give to a team when deciding what new work to include in a time box?
In case they have a priority list they should focus on that
