Slide Deck 3

Question 1

What are the four core practices of agile development?

Answer 1

1. Iterative and Incremental Practices: apply the right artifacts, create several models in parallel, model in small increments
2. Effective Teamwork Practices: Model with others, active stakeholder participation, collective ownership of the model, display models publicly
3. Practices promoting simplicity: Create simple context, depicts model simply, use the simplest tools
4. Validation Oriented Practices: Consider testability and prove it with code

Question 2

What are the 4 ways to maximize your modelling potentials?

Answer 2

1. Know your tools
2. Refactoring
3. Test-First Design
4. Model in Increment

Question 3

Tell me about Scrum

Answer 3

Agile process that focuses on delivering the highest business value in the shortest time

Allows us to rapidly and repeatedly inspect working software

Business sets the priorities. Teams self-organize to determine the best way to deliver the highest priority features.

Every two weeks to a month, anyone can see real working software and decide to release it as is or continue to enhance it for another sprint

Question 4

What are some characteristics of scrum?

Answer 4

Self-organizing teams

product progresses in a series of month-long sprints

requirements are captured as items in a list of product backlog

no specific engineering practices prescribed

uses generative rule to create an agile environment for delivering projects

Question 5

Can scrums be scaled up?

Answer 5

YUPP

Question 6

What is the correct order of scrum queues?

Answer 6

Product backlog -> sprint backlog -> sprint -> working increment of the software

Question 7

What comes before a sprint?

Answer 7

A planning meeting, tasks are identified and estimated commitement for the sprint goal which is followed by a review or retrospective meeting where lessons are learned and reviewed for the next sprint

Question 8

Features going into a sprint come from the ___ backlog

Answer 8

Product

prioritized list of requirements

Question 9

What is a sprint goal?

Answer 9

minimum success criteria for the sprint, keeps the team focused on the broader picture

Question 10

What goes into the sprint backlog?

Answer 10

Selected items that can be completed during the next sprint, chosen by the team

Question 11

Can anyone edit the sprint backlog during a sprint?

Answer 11

only the development team

Question 12

What is a product backlog?

Answer 12

Unordered list of requirements that is maintained for a product

The “what” that will be built, sorted in a relative order of how it should be built

Question 13

What is a story point?

Answer 13

Rough estimates of both business value and development effort are often stated in it

Question 14

What/Who is a product owner?

Answer 14

Responsible for the product backlog and the business value of each item listed

Question 15

What is the dev team responsible for?

Answer 15

the estimated effort to complete each backlog item

Question 16

What is a sprint backlog?

Answer 16

list of work the dev team has to do during the next sprint

Stories/tasks are broken down into tasks by the dev team and should normally be between 4-16 hours of work

Question 17

Are tasks assigned or signed up for in the sprint backlog?

Answer 17

Signed up for during the daily scrum

Question 18

What are core roles?

Answer 18

those committed to the project in the scrum process, those producing the product

Question 19

what does the product owner do?

Answer 19

represents stakeholders and is the voice of the customer.

Accountable for ensuring the team delivers something of value

Writes customer-centrix items (user stories), prioritizes them, and adds them to product backlog

Question 20

Scrum teams should have ___ product owner

Answer 20

one

Question 21

What is the dev team responsible for?

Answer 21

delivering potentially shippable product increments at end of each sprint

Question 22

Dev team consists of ___ - ___ people with cross functional skills

Answer 22

3 to 9

Question 23

What is a scrum master

Answer 23

Facilitates the scrum

accountable for removing impediments for the team to deliver

ensures the process is used as intended, enforcer of the rules, and protects the team and keeps em focused on tasks

Question 24

Is the scrum master the team leader?

Answer 24

NOOOOOO

acts as a buffer between the team and distracting influences

Question 25

Da fuq is a burndown chart?

Answer 25

Tracks the amount of estimated effort remaining in the current iteration

Ideally it should go down each day but if something was missing then it it may go up

Question 26

A burndown chart that is too pessimistic will go to zero ___ the end of iteration

Answer 26

before

Question 27

What are the two “once-per-iteration” meetings in a Scrum team

Answer 27

Iteration Planning and Sprint Review

Question 28

How long is a daily scrum meeting?

Answer 28

15 min

Question 29

What is a retrospective?

Answer 29

Like a post-mortem, happens at the end of each iteration (hour or two long)

Each team member should provide feedback and input on all activities conducted by the team during the sprint

Question 30

What is the exit-criteria that is used to determine whether a product backlog item is complete called?

Answer 30

Definition of Done

Question 31

What is the total effort a team is capable of in a sprint called?

Answer 31

Velocity

Question 32

Velocity is derived by adding all the ____ from the last sprints stories/features

Answer 32

Story Points

Question 33

What are the four roles in scrum?

Answer 33

• Product Owner
• Scrum Master
• Team
• Stakeholders

Question 34

What are the five artifacts in scrum?

Answer 34

• Product Backlog
• Sprint Goal
• Sprint Backlog
• Blocks List
• Increment

Question 35

What are the three meetings in scrum?

Answer 35

Sprint Planning Meeting

Daily Scrum

Sprint Review Meeting