Scrum Flashcards
What are the 7 Principles of Continuous Innovation?
- Delighting Clients
- Self-Organizing Teams
- Client-Driven Iterations
- Delivering Value to clients in each iteration
- Radical Transparency
- Continuous Self Improvement
- Interactive Communication
What is Empiricism?
The scientific approach based on evidence, where any idea must be tested against observations, rather than intuition.
What are the Three Pillars of Empiricism?
transparency, inspection and adaptation
What are the Scrum Values?
Courage
Focus
Commitment
Respect
Openness
Define Scrum Value: Courage
Scrum Team members have the Courage to do the right thing and work on tough problems.
Define Scrum Value: Focus
Everyone focuses on the work of the Sprint and the goals of the Scrum Team
Define Scrum Value: Commitment
People personally commit to achieving the goals of the Scrum Team.
Define Scrum Value: Respect
Scrum Team members respect each other to be capable, independent people.
Define Scrum Value: Openness
The Scrum Team and its stakeholders agree to be open about all the work and the challenges with performing the work.
What is the Sprint Retrospective for?
An opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next sprint.
What is a Sprint Review?
It is held at the end of the Sprint to inspect the Increment and adapt the Product Backlog if needed. The Scrum Team & stakeholders collaborate about what was done in the Sprint. Informal meeting for feedback and collaboration.
Who uses the Daily Scrum, and what for?
The Development Team. They use the Daily Scrum to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal, and how its trending toward completing work in the Sprint Backlog. It optimizes the probability that the DT will meet the SPrint Goal.
What is a Scrum Master and what do they do?
Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and enacted. A servant-leader for the Scrum Team. Helps those outside the Team understand which interactions with the ST are helpful and which aren’t. Helps everyone change these interactions to maximize the value created by the ST.
Who is the Product Owner and what are they responsible for?
The sole person responsible for managing the Product Backlog. To succeed, the organization must respect their decisions.
What is Done Means Done?
The team takes ownership of a specific Definition of Done, and then only shows work as ‘done’ in a Sprint that meets this definition.
Who attends Sprint Planning?
The whole team, including Product Owner, Dev Team, and Scrum Master.
What is the very first thing to happen when a Sprint commences?
Sprint Planning session.
What is the goal of each Sprint?
To result in a valuable increment of completed work, ready for immediate release.
What is a Sprint Goal?
A cohesive selection of work; a simple expression of the purpose of the work selected from the Product Backlog.
Who plans the Sprint Backlog?
The Development Team
What is the Sprint Backlog?
The selection of work from the Product Backlog to be completed this Sprint, including a plan of how this goal will be achieved.
What is the maximum amount of time Daily Scrum should take?
15 minutes
Who should participate in a Daily Scrum?
Only the Development Team
What should each team member cover during Daily Scrum?
- Inspect progress toward Sprint Goal
- What they did yesterday to help the team meet Sprint Goal
- What they intend to do today to help team meet Sprint Goal
- Any impediments getting in their way
What is Product Backlog Refinement?
An ongoing activity; the process of adding detail, order, and estimates to Product Backlog Items. ie User Stories.
How long should Product Backlog Refinement take of a team’s total time during a sprint?
No more than 10%
Who should participate in Product Backlog Refinement?
The Product Owner + Development/whole Team
What is a Sprint Review?
An examination of the product and the value delivered, the work that had been done, and assessment of any work that wasn’t done.
What is a Sprint Retrospective?
An examination of the process which the team is following.
Who attends a Sprint Retrospective?
Development Team, Product Owner, Scrum Master
Difference between Daily Scrum and Status Update?
DS encourages self organization since Team holds it for themselves.
Maximises transparency for frequent inspection/adaptation opportunities.
Focus on progress towards goal allows adaptation planning.
Focus on team’s collaborative goal/accountability.
SU is a report from one person to somebody else.
May wish to deliver good news, obscuring transparency.
Focus on task updates is one dimensional, no adaptation.
Focus on individual contribution, less collaborative focus.
The Sprint Planning is split into which two parts:
- What?
- How?
Which is considered fixed during the Sprint?
The Sprint Goal (a set objective) is fixed. The Sprint Backlog (work that needs to be pulled from Product Backlog to achieve Sprint Goal) is not.
As issues emerge during a Sprint, changes to the SB may be warranted in order to reach the Sprint Goal. The Dev Team can renegotiate the SB with the Product Owner.
What is a Nexus?
A group of 3 to 9 scrum teams that work together to deliver a single product. There is 1 product backlog and 1 product owner.
What are the Facilitation principles?
Participatory
Healthy
Transparency
Process
Purposeful
