Scrum, XP

Question 1

What does scrum call the daily standup meeting?

Answer 1

The daily scrum

Question 2

What three questions are asked at the daily scrum?

Answer 2

What work have you done since the last meeting? What are you planning to do today?
What obstacles are you encountering?

Question 3

What happens at the sprint review meeting?

Answer 3

This half-day meeting is attended by the team and key stakeholders the purpose is to show the new product functionality why discussing features for next sprint

Question 4

What happens at a sprint retrospective?

Answer 4

In this meeting the ScrumMaster works with the team to tune it’s own development process. Since teams are self organizing and self managing they focus on what worked and what needs improvement and make necessary adjustments the Scrum framework.

Question 5

Who writes the user stories in scrum?

Answer 5

The product owner

Question 6

Who has primary responsibility for the product backlog, grooming, and prioritizing it?

Answer 6

The product owner

Question 7

What works better on a scrum project generalist or specialist?

Answer 7

In a scrum project teams are self organizing and self managing. Their primary job is to develop the product. Ideally team members are generalist and highly interchangeable

Question 8

Who is ultimately responsible for results on a scrum project?

Answer 8

Team

Question 9

Who helps the team files from processes?

Answer 9

The scrum master

Question 10

What are the three pillars of scrum?

Answer 10

Visibility, inspection, and adaptation

Question 11

Who created scrum and when?

Answer 11

Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland in the early 1990s

Question 12

Who developed XP?

Answer 12

Kent Beck

Question 13

What do both programmers do when doing extreme programming on a XP project?

Answer 13

One programmer works on writing the code and the other program observes with a focus on higher level issues such as integration and functionality. Think Pilot and Navigator

Question 14

Is test driven development part of XP?

Answer 14

Yes after the planning meeting programmers work in pairs using the acceptance criteria to build test cases this is known as test driven development

Question 15

Would you see a swarm of an XP project?

Answer 15

Yes after the test is defined the team “swarms” the task in the pairs to develop them.

Question 16

What are the 12 practices of extreme programming?

Answer 16

9. Continuous integration
10. Re-factoring
11. Planning game
12. Small releases
13. Testing
14. Pair programming
15. Simple design
16. On-site customer
17. Collective code ownership
18. Coding standards
19. Metaphor
20. Sustainable pace
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Question 17

What are the six basic principles of extreme programming to begin with?

Answer 17

6. Continuous integration
7. Re-factoring
8. Planning game
9. Small releases
10. Testing
11. Pair programming

Question 18

what are the seven principles of lean?

Answer 18

1. Decide as late as possible.
2. Amplify learning
3. Deliver as fast as possible
4. Build integrity in
5. Empower the team
6. Eliminate waste
7. See the whole

Question 19

Who invented lean ?

Answer 19

lean software development was adapted from Toyota and their revolutionary manufacturing program

Question 20

What is meant by the lean principle of eliminate waste?

Answer 20

Lean is ruthless about eliminating waste. Waste may take on many forms. It may be in the form of excessive meetings, planning, documentation, testing, or any function. The key question is could we have achieved a positive result without doing the step. If the answer is yes it should be eliminated.

Question 21

What is meant by the lean principle of amplify learning?

Answer 21

The pursuit of lean is marked by continuous learning and improvement, and no matter how good the team gets, there are always opportunities to improve.

Question 22

What is meant by lean principle build integrity in?

Answer 22

Re-factoring is also a part of building integrity in. When re-factoring, you are a sensually reorganizing the code, and aligning it conceptually with the solution.

Question 23

What is meant by the lean principle see the whole?

Answer 23

The solution the team creates should look and feel like a solution and not like ten separate solutions cobble together. This is accomplished by seeing the entire solution, and this includes more than just the technical components.

Question 24

What are the seven main types of waste in Lean?

Answer 24

The seven main types of waste are transportation, inventory, motion, waiting, overproduction, overprocessing, and defects.

Question 25

What type of waste is email?

Answer 25

The waste type extra motion. If excessive or unnecessary emails and documents get forwarded it multiple times sometimes with large attachments due to multiple distribution groups it constitutes waste of type motion.

Question 26

What is the waste type extra transportation?

Answer 26

Extra transportation refers to unnecessary motion or movement of raw materials or goods such as a work in progress being transported from one operation to another.

Question 27

What is the meaning of Kaizen?

Answer 27

The word Kisaan means continuous improvement it is a system of continuous improvement in quality technology, process, company culture, productivity, safety, and leadership. It comes from the Japanese word “Kai” which means “change” or “to correct” and “zen” which is “good”

Question 28

What does the word jidoka mean?

Answer 28

Jidoka is a Japanese term used for automation meeting “intelligent automation “or “humanized Automation” In practice it means that an automated process it is sufficient “aware” of itself so that it will detect when the desired quality is produced, detect process malfunctions, detect product defects, stop itself and alert the operator. A future goal of automation is self correction.