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
Briefly describe project retrospective
- project retrospective: team members and invited customers meet to discuss project and asses lessons learnt
What is estimation?
is typically part of grooming exercise, and is iterative, resulting in increasing accurate estimates
- portafolio backlog estimates
- product backlog estimates
- task estimates
What are story points?
The user stories are estimated in story points. This estimates the magnitude of PBI
- uses points based on fibonacci sequence 0,1,2,3,5,8
- reflects the inevitable uncertainty in estimate very large stories
What are the estimation guidelines?
- estimate as a team and estimates are not commitments
- focus on accuracy, not precision
- use relative not absolute sizes
What is planning poker?
is a consensus-based technique for estimating effort
- product owner presents PBI
- scrum team discusses
- it’s selected privately
- all estimates are exposed at the same time
- if all cards the same, that is PBI estimate
- if not, repeat until consensus
What is and what is included in a scrumboard?
Scrumboard is a tool used to plan and track progress during each sprint
- to do: tasks not started
- in progress: tasks started
- testing: tasks completed but being tested
- done: task completed and tested
Mention some tools to measure and track SCRUM progress.
- Trello
- Jira
- Kanban board
- Velocity
- Burndown Chart
- Yesterday’s weather
What is user research?
User research is about understanding the behavior of the user and what they want from a product
Qualitative methods provide insight about people’s behavior and examine data to understand real usage and trends
Is velocity a performance metric?
No, velocity is a planning tool. not a performance metric
