Methodology: Agile Scrum

Question 1

What is the agile methodology

Answer 1

Its a development pattern commonly used in software development that focus on adaption to changing specification requirements and early delivery, it includes lots of testing.

Question 2

What is scrum

Answer 2

Scrum is an abstract framework to ensure adaptive delivery of a product while keeping productivity and making clear how much your team, work techniques is effective, helping you improve the team, product and work environment along the development course.

Scrum provides an iterative, incremental process that optimize predictability and control risk.

Question 3

the 3 scrum roles are

Answer 3

The product owner,
The development team,
The scrum master.

Question 4

The product owner is

Answer 4

the sole person responsible for adding value to the product by making the product backlog as effective as possible, making it clear and ordering the backlog is responsability of the product owner.

Question 5

The development team is

Answer 5

the team responsible in turning the product backlog in “done” product increment at the end of a sprint.
The development team supposedly have all skills necessary to perform all tasks, and do not depend on anyone outside of the team to do their work.
There is no fixated sub-team hierarchy and the whole team is self-organizing and responsible as a whole.

Question 6

the ideal development team size is

Answer 6

a team small enough so the organizational process isnt too complex, and big enough so that the skillset necessary to complete all “done” increments are there.
Usually less than 9 members per scrum development team.

Question 7

The scrum master is

Answer 7

The person responsible for guiding the scrum team on the scrum theory and managing outside interaction with the scrum team, discerning useful interaction from not useful.

It helps the product owner to create effective product backlogs, coaches the development team in self-organizing and being flexible, as well as helping the company in implementing the scrum framework, including stakeholder, and working with other scrum masters to help maximize the effectiveness of the scrum teams

Question 8

The scrum artifacts are three, and they are

Answer 8

1. A product backlog, composed of user stories;
2. A sprint backlog;
3. A burndown chart.

Question 9

A user story is

Answer 9

the representation of a feature set that follows the format:

as a ___ user
i need ___ feature
so that ___ reason

Question 10

Product backlog is

Answer 10

A collection of user stories, with some priorities

Question 11

Sprint backlog is

Answer 11

a series of compiled user stories set to be completed in a sprint.

Question 12

the scrum framework includes 3 cerimonies, they are

Answer 12

cerimonies are meetings, the 3 meetings are:

1. sprint planning meeting;
2. daily Scrum.
3. sprint review & retrospective meeting;

Question 13

Sprint planning meeting is

Answer 13

a meeting to decide which user stories will be at the next sprint and how.

Question 14

Sprint review & retrospective meeting is

Answer 14

a meeting to showcase the sprint progress to the product owner, and to review how the team worked previously and how they can be improved.

Question 15

Daily scrum meeting is

Answer 15

A daily meeting discussing what have being done, what is currently being worked on, and what they will do next.

Question 16

A burndown chart artifact is

Answer 16

a chart that visually evaluates the rate at which each feature is being implemented per time, and give a projection of the estimated delivery of a product.

Question 17

one iteration/sprint constitutes of

Answer 17

1. A done product backlog;
2. A sprint meeting to decide which and how each top priorities from backlog will turn into a sprint backlog;
3. Daily scrums with implementation of features in a flexible, creative and independent way;
4. Sprint review with retrospective meeting after the potentially shippable product is done;

Repeat.