Product 101

Question 1

What is Agile?

Answer 1

An iterative approach to deliver value to stakeholders quickly.

Question 2

What is scrum?

Answer 2

A framework to support teams in complex product development.

Consists of two-week iterative sprints where we build the most valuable features first.

Question 3

What is a Sprint?

Answer 3

A short time-boxed period when a scrum team works to complete a set amount of work.

Question 4

What does the INVEST mnemonic stand for?

Answer 4

Independent

Negotiable

Valuable to users or customer

Estimable

Small

Testable

Question 5

What are the thee roles in scrum squads?

Answer 5

The scrum team

Product owner

Scrum master (project manager)

Question 6

What are the five main Agile ceremonies in scrum?

Answer 6

Sprint planning

Daily standup

Grooming (PBR)

Sprint review

Sprint retrospective

Question 7

What are estimations?

Answer 7

Knowing a story’s complexity, risk, uncertainty, and the work needed to accomplish it.

Question 8

What questions do user stories and epics address?

Answer 8

Who

What

When

Why

NOT how!

Question 9

What tools does a scrum master use for squad management and improvement?

Answer 9

Burn down / burn up charts

Jira dashboards

Sprint metrics

Question 10

What is a backlog?

Answer 10

A repository of all upcoming work. Not committal, more like a wish list.

Question 11

What is a burn-down?

Answer 11

A graphical representation of work left to do versus time.

Question 12

What is cycle time?

Answer 12

A measure of the elapsed time when work starts on an item until it’s ready for delivery. Tells how long in calendar time it takes to complete a task.

Question 13

What is Definition of done?

Answer 13

Used to assess when a user story has been completed. (Each scrum squad has its own definition of done)

Question 14

What are epics?

Answer 14

Significant initiatives that help guide value streams toward the larger aim of the portfolio.

Investment intensive, require analysis of cost, impact, and opportunity in a lightweight business case.

Question 15

What is a feature

Answer 15

A service provided by the system that fulfills the stakeholder needs.

Question 16

What is the Kanban method?

Answer 16

A means to design manage and improve flow for knowledge work and allows squads to start where they are to strive evolutionary change

Question 17

What is PI planning?

Answer 17

The seminal cadence-based l, face-to-face planning event that serves as the heartbeat of the Agile Release Train.

Question 18

What is a Product Owner?

Answer 18

The squad member responsible for defining stories and prioritizing the team backlog.

Question 19

What is a retrospective?

Answer 19

A meeting held at the end of an iteration in Agile Software Development (ASD). During this time, the squad reflects on what happened in the iteration and identifies actions for improvement going forward.

Question 20

What are stand-ups?

Answer 20

A daily meeting (aka morning roll call or daily scrum). A crucial feature for communication opportunity among the team members and not a status update to management or stakeholders.

Question 21

What are stories?

Answer 21

The primary artifact used to define system behavior in Agile development.

Short, simple descriptions of a small piece of desired functionality, usually told from the users’ perspective.

Question 22

What are story points?

Answer 22

An abstract measure of effort required to implement a user story. It is a number that tells the team about the difficulty level of the story.

*Difficulty could be related to complexities, risks? And efforts involved.

Question 23

What is the Tuckman Stage?

Answer 23

A four stage process:

Forming

Storming

Norming

And Performing

(Created by Bruce Tuckman)

Question 24

What is velocity?

Answer 24

A measure of the amount of work a team can tackle during a single sprint and is the key metric in scrum.

*calculated by the total amount of points for all fully completed user stories