Scrum Basics

Question 1

Scrum Values

Answer 1

Commitment, courage, focus, openness, and respect

Question 2

Definition of Done

Answer 2

Set of criteria that increments must meet for it to be considered done/ ready for the customer

Created by the entire team (stakeholders, PO, devs)

Examples: all images compressed, code has been tested, increment deployed to staging environment

Question 3

Definition of Ready

Answer 3

Low-level and specific critieria that applies only to backlog items.

Defines when a team is ready to working work on an item

INVEST

Question 4

INVEST stands for:

Answer 4

Independent
Negotiable
Valuable
Estimable
Small
Testable

Question 5

Throughput

Answer 5

How many cards were finished in a given period

Delivery rate consistency (throughput) will make your forecasts more accurate and your decisions based on historical data.

Question 6

Velocity

Answer 6

The number of points per sprint (usually calculated over 3 sprints)

Question 7

Items in a WA?

Answer 7

Scrum and Team Values

Team Calendar

Core Hours

Communication

Sprint Info (times/ dates for events)

DoR, DoD, Code Review

System of Record

Estimation/ Metrics

Best practices for working together

Team identity markers (logos/ mascots)

Question 8

Lead time

Answer 8

The measurement of how much time passes between task creation and when the work is completed

Question 9

Cycle time

Answer 9

The amount of time that a work item spends in the active stage of your workflow, from the moment it is picked up by a team member until it is marked as done.

Question 10

Long lead time causes

Answer 10

Handoffs and manual procedures

Approval processes

Environment management and provisioning – waiting for a new environment to be provisioned or installed by IT can create long lead times and increase the cost of software deployments.

Manual software deployments – many organizations still deploy code manually. Automating manual deployment can cut “lead times” by over 90%.

Manual software testing – although test automation technology is advanced and widespread, many test automation tasks are still manual, causing complexity, errors and delays in completing and delivering software tasks.

Question 11

High Cycle Time

Answer 11

Stalls and bottlenecks

Evaluating w/ cumulative flow

Question 12

Acceptance Criteria

Answer 12

As a ____, I want to ____, so that ____.

Like learning objectives.

Set a purpose for the task and a set end result to work towards

Question 13

3 Pillars of Empiricism

Answer 13

Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation