Scrum Flashcards
What is the most important aspect of Scrum?
Time (schedule-oriented)
-Fixed schedule with adjustable scope
What is success at Scrum?
Customer satisfaction = Success = Quality = Features delivered
Why is Scrum a Lightweight Process Framework?
A process framework is a standard that must be followed consistently and lightweight means that the process is kept as small as possible to maximize the amount of productive time available.
What is the planning logic of Scrum?
Planning and estimative the period of time that is closer to us is easier and simpler that the farther.
Type of projects Scrum is optimized for
Needs change quickly (fluid scope)
Plenty of implementation can be done quickly
Success measured by customer satisfaction with
-responsiveness (burn-down priorities)
-turnaround time (feature delivery)
Benefits for Project Managers of Scrum
Planning and tracking are easier and more concrete
- Distribute the responsibility of planning
- Awareness about the state of the project to address issues quickly
Less experience is needed
What are the meetings of Scrum?
Sprint Planning
Daily Scrum
Sprint Review
Sprint Retrospective
What are the roles of Scrum?
Scrum Master
Product Owner
Development Team
Scrum concepts
Story
- Identify the functions needed
- Products requirements
Sprints
-Time period to identify the activities, without thinking too much on the effort needed
Self-organization
- Few people, easily organize
- No task delegation
- Rely on people, not process
Shipped!
-Deliver only stories that are completed
What are Scrum Stories?
Product requirements in a short narrative description
-Common format
What are the Scrum Stories types?
User Story
- User-facing functional requirement
- Product Owner responsibility
- Small business cases, specific, very small detail
Technical Story
- Functionalities supporting the user-facing features in User Stories
- Development team responsibility
Defect
- Bug report
- Product Owner monitor
What is a Sprint in Scrum?
Fixed period of time, cycle
2-4 weeks
Small teams (3-7)
-If needed, break into more teams with 1 SM and 1 PO
Scope of the sprint is fixed, once started, no change requests allowed!
What is the Scrum Master role?
Ensure the process run smoothly
Remove obstacles that impact productivity
Teach and give info for the PO
What is the Product Owner role?
Represents the customer
Link between team and client
Responsible for Stories and priorities
Planning on Scrum
Plan based on the value to the project per sprint
Scrum Stages
Vision Product Roadmap Release Planning Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective
What is the Vision Stage in Scrum and its steps?
Most important phase
Understand the why/reason behind a project and link with organization’s strategy
Develop product objective
Create and validade vision statement
-From understanding customer and client needs
-Align everyone, even small teams can have different interpretations in mind
What is a Vision Statement? Templates?
Communicate exact information related to the project
-It can be done to every MVP inside the project
Elevator Statement
Product Envision Box
How to create a Product Roadmap?
Identify product requirements
- Themes
- Features
- Epic User Stories
- User Stories
- Tasks
Organize in logical groups
Estimate effort and priority level
- Effort is difficulty, not hours
- Priority, how beneficial for the product
- Many methods, matter of preference
Envision high-level time frames
How to estimate effort and priority level?
Use Fibonacci sequence for effort and value
-Priority = Value / Effort
Use any scale, e.g., shirt size
Use a scale for effort and another for priority
Use MS.CoW for priority
-Must, Should, Could, Won’t
What characterizes a release?
Minimal marketable features for your customer
Sprint Planning Meeting goal
Select the user stories to be developed in this sprint
Breakdown into tasks
Self-organize tasks
First sprint is an experiment to be able to understand if what was planned makes sense or not and what to do about it
Daily Scrum questions
Yesterday I completed
Today I’m going to take on
My impediments are
Active listening to others
30s for each question
Goal of Sprint Review
Check if and show WHAT was planned was done
1h / sprint week
Goal of Sprint Retrospective
Check the HOW
What went well?
What would we like to change?
How can we implement that change?
