scrum guide 01 Flashcards
scrum theory
- Scrum is iterative and incremental
* It optimizes predictability and control risk.
Three pillars
- transparency
- inspection
- adaptation
Scrum prescribes four formal events for inspection and adaptation
- Sprint Planning
- Daily Scrum
- Sprint Review
- Sprint Retrospective
Scrum values
- commitment
- courage
- focus
- openness
team model in Scrum
designed to optimize:
• flexibility
• creativity
• productivity
Product Backlog management includes
• Product Backlog items;
• Ordering the items;
• Optimizes the value of the work;
• is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what
the Team will work on next; and,
• Ensuring the Development Team understands items
Development team synergy optimizes
- efficiency
* effectiveness
Development Teams characteristics
- Self-organizing;
- Cross-functional;
- No titles for Development Team members;
- No sub-teams in the Development Team; and,
- Accountability belongs to the Development Team as a whole.
Development Teams size
Three to nine (3 - 9) members.
Scrum Masters helps everyone understand
- Scrum theory
- practices
- rules
- values
Scrum Master Service to the Product Owner
Product owner
• Finding techniques for effective Product Backlog management;
• Ensuring the Product Owner knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value;
Team
• Ensuring that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone;
• Helping the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items;
And
• Understanding product planning in an empirical environment;
• Understanding and practicing agility;
• Facilitating Scrum events.
Scrum Master Service to the Development Team
- Coaching the Team in:
- self-organization
- cross-functionality;
- organizational environments
- Removing impediments;
- Facilitating Scrum events;
- Helping the Team to create high-value products;
- Coaching the Development Team
Scrum Master Service to the Organization
• Leading and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption;
• Planning Scrum implementations within the organization;
• Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product
development;
• Causing change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team;
• Working with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum
in the organization.
Sprints contain and consist of
- Sprint Planning
- Daily Scrums
- Development work
- Sprint Review,
- Sprint Retrospective.
Are changes made during the sprint?
• No changes are made that would endanger the Sprint Goal
Sprint maximum duration
one calendar month
Sprint Planning answers the following
• What can be done this Sprint?
The entire Scrum Team collaborates on understanding the work of the Sprint.
Only the Development Team can assess what it can accomplish over the upcoming Sprint.
• How will the chosen work get done?
The Sprint Goal is
an objective set for the Sprint that can be met through the implementation of Product Backlog.
What the scrum master teaches the development team about the Daily scrum?
Scrum master teaches the team to keep within 15 minutes
Sprint review attendees and duration
- four-hour meeting for one-month Sprints (or less)
* Scrum Team and stakeholders
What does the development team do in the Sprint Review?
• discusses: what went well, what problems it ran
into, and how those problems were solved;
• demonstrates the work that it has “Done” and answers questions about the Increment;
What is the role of the Product Owner in the Sprint Review?
- He explains what Product Backlog items have been “Done” and what have not been “Done”;
- He discusses the Product Backlog as it stands. He or she projects likely target and delivery dates based on progress to date (if needed);
When does sprint Retrospective occur?
• occurs after the Sprint Review and prior to the next Sprint Planning
How long is the sprint retrospective?
This is at most a three-hour meeting for one-month Sprints (or less)
What opportunity does sprint review provide?
Provides an opportunity to focus on inspection and adaptation
The “sprint review” reviews
Review of the timeline, budget, potential capabilities, and marketplace for the next releases of functionality or capability of the product.
What benefit does sprint review provide to the next sprint?
Provides valuable input to subsequent Sprint Planning
How long is the daily scrum?
15 minute time-boxed
Who is responsible for conducting the daily scrum?
The team is responsible for conducting the meeting not the scrum master
What happen to the quality goals during the sprint?
Quality goals do not decrease
How can scope change during the sprint?
Scope may be clarified and re-negotiated between the Product Owner and Development
Team as more is learned.
