SCRUM Activities Flashcards
What is a project?
A collaborative enterprise to create a new products or services, to deliver results as defined in the project vision statement
What is a program?
A group of related projects, with the objective to deliver business outcomes as defined in the programme vision statements.
What is the portafolio?
A group of related programmes, with the objective to deliver business outcomes as defines in the portafolio vision statement
Describe the behavior of Sprints.
Sprints are short timeboxed development and test cycles.
- Fixed short duration, usually 2 to 4 weeks
- fixed team size 8 to 10 people
- consistent length
- clearly stated goal
- clear end point
Describe the behavior of timeboxing
Time management technique to organize work.
- Limits the amount of work in progress
- Forces prioritization
- demonstrates progress
- avoids perfectionism
- motivates closure
- improves predictability
What does timeboxing allow?
Tme-boxing allows for frequent checkpoints, and puts a boundary on error. it allows activities to be wrong in a small way
Which activities are time-boxed in scrum?
- releases
- meetings
- sprints
- research
Why the sprint activities have consistent duration?
- Provides cadence for project activities
- simplifies planning
- consistent velocity
- improves predictability
What is velocity?
The amount of work a team can accomplish in a sprint, measured by totalling the amount of story points completed by the end of the sprint
- also, it gives a previous like capacity for future sprints
Describe what fixed goal is.
Once the sprint goal is established, no change permitted. Because mutual commitment between product owner and team It needs to be meaningful and measurable and must be pragmatic.
Define ‘Done’
Checklist of the work that the team is expected to complete successfully before declaring a potentially shippable increment.
- It’s agreed by the team and product owner, and applicable to all user stories.
- Depends on the nature of the product being built user
- different for user stories and sprints
What are the different type of scrum ceremonies?
- Daily stand-up
- Show an tell
- sprint retrospective
- project retrospective
Briefly describe daily stand-up
- Daily stand-up: scrum master, developers, product owner discuss and plan for day
- 15 minutes
- identifies, such things as what did i accomplish since last daily scrum
- what do i plan to work on by next daliy scrum
Briefly describe show and tell
- Show an tell: team members and invited customers meet to look at output
- presents only completed work
- sometimes includes a demo of potentially shippable product increment to stakeholders
Briefly describe sprint retrospective
- sprint retrospective: scrum master, developers, product owner discuss each sprint and asses lessons learnt
- between 60 to 90 minutes
- process improvements
- best practices
- process problems and bottlenecks
