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The Kanban Guide for SCRUM Teams (04/2018) Flashcards

Compliment the SCRUM Framework so Teams can apply Kanban.

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What is defined as “The number of work items ‘finished’ per unit of time. (measurement of the exact count of work items)”

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Throughput

The Kanban Guide (Page 7)

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How is cycle time calculated?

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The SCRUM Team tracks the start date and finish dates of each item (at a minimum).

The Kanban Guide (Page 7)

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What ceremony is a way of limiting work in progress and controlling how much work a Dev Team is going to attempt during a specified period?

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The Sprint

The Kanban Guide (Page 6)

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What is the Kanban Guide’s definition of “Workflow” or “Flow”?

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A shared understanding within the SCRUM Team of how work is defined (work items), the start state of the process, the active states for the work items and the finished state of the work items.

The Kanban Guide (Page 4)

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What is the Kanban Guide in relation to the SCRUM Guide?

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It is not meant to replace or discount any part of the SCRUM Guide.

The Kanban Guide (Page 3)

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What kinds of changes to the policies can have a material impact on how the SCRUM Team performs overall?

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Small Changes

The Kanban Guide (Page 6)

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What 4 practices achieve flow optimization by the SCRUM Team?

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  • Visualization of the Workflow
  • Limiting Work In Progress
  • Active management of work items in progress
  • Inspecting and adapting the definition of “Workflow”

The Kanban Guide (Page 5)

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Where would the SCRUM Team using Kanban also inspect and adapt the definition of “Workflow” to optimize the flow in the next Sprint.

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The Sprint Retrospective

The Kanban Guide (Page 7)

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What is “Flow” related to Kanban?

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It is the movement of customer value throughout the product development system.

The Kanban Guide (Page 3)

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The SCRUM Framework combined with Kanbans hyperfocus on 3 items helps to deliver optimal customer value - name the 3 items.

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  • Transparency
  • Visualization
  • Flow

The Kanban Guide (Page 4)

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Who controls the what limits are and how it will apply?

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The SCRUM Team

The Kanban Guide (Page 5)

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True or False - Each Kanban team must define its own “Flow”?

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Yes

The Kanban Guide (Page 4)

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What is a beneficial side effect of optimizing value delivery?

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It provides many more opportunities to inspect and adapt process and products.

The Kanban Guide (Page 4)

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What item on the Kanban board is key in helping the SCRUM Team limit the Work in Progress (WIP)?

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The control is limited to a number on the Kanban board - this number is a limiting factor that limits (for example) the number of stories on the board, or in a column.

The Kanban Guide (Page 5)

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Can the Kanban workflow be changed?

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Yes - usually in the Inspect and adapt ceremony.

The Kanban Guide (Page 5)

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How does Kanban optimize “Flow”?

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By improving the overall efficiency, effectiveness, and predictability of a process.

The Kanban Guide (Page 3)

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What forecasts how long a work item should take a given item to flow from start to finish within your workflow?

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A Service Level Expectation (SLE)

The Kanban Guide (Page 5)

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What are the three foundations that uphold SCRUM Theory and Kanban Theory?

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  • Transparency
  • Inspection
  • Adaptation

The Kanban Guide (Page 3)

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Must the work items correspond to the Product Backlog items or other parts of the Sprint Backlog or SCRUM?

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No

The Kanban Guide (Page 4)

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What can act as a feedback loop for inspecting Kanban flow metrics, and for inspecting the SCRUM implementation?

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The Sprint

The Kanban Guide (Page 7)

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What is defined as “The amount of elapsed time between when a work item ‘started’ and the current time?

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Work Item Age

The Kanban Guide (Page 7)

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What ceremony add the inspection of flow metrics and analytics to help determine what improvements the SCRUM Team can make to its processes, including the ceremony itself?

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The Sprint Retrospective

The Kanban Guide (Page 7)

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What must each Kanban Team’s Workflow contain?

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  • Defined points the SCRUM Master considers the work to start and finish
  • Definition of the individual units of customer value in the Product Backlog Items (PBI)
  • Definition of the workflow states the PBIs must travel
  • Explicit policies about how work flows in and out of each state
  • Defined work in progress will be limited
  • Defined Service Level Expectations

The Kanban Guide (Page 4)

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Where should all relevant policies or direct SCRUM Team members where to find them?

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The Kanban Board

The Kanban Guide (Page 6)

25
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What is a reflection of the current health and performance of the SCRUM Team’s approach?

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Metrics

The Kanban Guide (Page 7)

26
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What is the definition of Kanban?

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A strategy for optimizing the flow of stakeholder value through a process that uses a visual, work-in-progress limited ‘pull’ system.

The Kanban Guide (Page 3)

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What is defined as “The amount of elapsed time between when a work item ‘starts’ and when a work item ‘finishes’.”

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Cycle Time

The Kanban Guide (Page 7)

28
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What are the 4 basic metrics of “Flow”?

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  • Work in Progress
  • Cycle Time
  • Work Item Age
  • Throughput

The Kanban Guide (Page 7)

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What are the two parts of the Service Level Expectation (SLE)?

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  • A time estimate
  • A probability estimate

Example - (85% chance this item will finish in 8 days)

The Kanban Guide (Page 5)

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What is the most central concept to Kanban?

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The “Workflow”

The Kanban Guide (Page 5)

31
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What is defined as “The number of work items started but not finished (according to the SCRUM Team’s definition of “Workflow”)

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Work in Progress (WIP)

The Kanban Guide (Page 7)

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What is the Service Level Expectation (SLE) based upon?

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The SCRUM Team’s historical cycle time, and once calculated should be posted to the Kanban board.

The Kanban Guide (Page 5)

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Does a work item have to complete each step in the “Workflow”?

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No

The Kanban Guide (Page 4)

34
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Whose responsibility to ensure the continuous proactive, active, and reactive management of work items in progress?

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The SCRUM Team

The Kanban Guide (Page 6)

35
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What does consistency of the Kanban team ensure?

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  • Hyperfocus on Transparency
  • Consistency ensures integrity

The Kanban Guide (Page 5)

36
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What major practice does the Kanban Guide remove as part of the SCRUM Guide?

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None - the SCRUM Guide applies in its entirety.

The Kanban Guide (Page 3)

37
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What is the difference between a “Pull” system and a “Push” system?

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Pull systems trigger when the SCRUM Team starts work on an item (i.e. pulls) and only when there is a clear signal that it is time to do so. A “Push” system demands that work be started on an item whenever requested.

The Kanban Guide (Page 5 & 6)

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When the SCRUM Guide uses “Explicit” what exactly does it mean?

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That the policies are written down or visualized somehow and that the whole SCRUM Team understands them.

The Kanban Guide (Page 6)

39
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What does the Work Item Aging chart show?

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For each item on the Kanban board how long ago has it been pulled into “Work in Progress” (WIP)

Scrum.org Practice Test

40
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Cycle time is a lagging indicator? (True or False)

A

True

Scrum.org Practice Test

41
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Which metric is most valuable for Sprint Planning?

A

Throughput

Scrum.org Practice Test

42
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A Service Level Expectation (SLE) target reflects the Scrum Team’s aspirations toward a reliable cycle time. (True or False)

A

True

Scrum.org Practice Test

43
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When using Scrum with Kanban you can release multiple times during the Sprint? (True or False)

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True

Scrum.org Practice Test

44
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What are some of the impacts of reducing batch sizes?

A

A - Improving efficiency due to faster feedback loops.

B - Higher motivation due to seeing work getting done and delivering value earlier.

C - Lower efficiency due to overhead / transaction costs in case the batch size is too small.

D - Highlight a need to work to improve processes / infrastructure to reduce the pain frequent costly overhead.

Scrum.org Practice Test

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The purpose of a Scrum Team’s SLE is to allow teams to give each PBI a commitment to a due date as part of Sprint Planning. (True or False)

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False

Scrum.org Practice Test

46
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The main role of WIP Aging is to help identify flow bottlenecks; where work may be impeded or constrained. (True or False)

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False

Scrum.org Practice Test

47
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Scrum Events, Roles, Artifacts, and Rules are changed when using Scrum with Kanban. For example, the Scrum Team might choose to no longer conduct a Sprint Retrospective when using Kanban with Scrum. (True or False)

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False

Scrum.org Practice Test

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Workflow can be thought of as the “Team’s policy” for how to get work to “Done”. (True or False)

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True

Scrum.org Practice Test

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When it comes to using Kanban for the Sprint Backlog, the Dev Team owns the way they work, their definition of “Done”, as well as their definition of “Their Workflow”. (True or False)

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True

Scrum.org Practice Test

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In a flow-based system, the number of tasks is not necessarily limited, rather then amount of value-generating work items is limited. (True or False)

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True

Scrum.org Practice Test

51
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Work Item Age is a leading indicator for the length of the Scrum Team’s feedback loop for that (in progress) item. (True or False)

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True

Scrum.org Practice Test

52
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Batch size is the same as the Sprint length when using Scrum with Kanban. (True or False)

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False

Scrum.org Practice Test

53
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The WIP Limit can only be changed during the Sprint Retrospective. (True or False)

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False

Scrum.org Practice Test

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