Misc. Flashcards
What is velocity in a Sprint?
Average amount of work done per Sprint.
What is a Burndown Chart?
A Burn Down Chart is a visual tool used in Agile and Scrum to track the progress of work completed in a Sprint or over a specific time period. It provides a clear and real-time representation of how much work remains to be done to achieve the Sprint or project goal. Burn Down Charts are commonly used to help teams and stakeholders monitor progress and make data-driven decisions.
If burndown charts are used to visualize progress, what does a trend through a release burndown chart indicate?
1. The evolution of the cost spent on the project
2. When the wor remaining will likely be completed if nothing changes on the Product Backlog or the Developers
3. When all work will be completed so the Scrum team can be released for other work
4. When the project will be over if the Product owner removes work that is equal in effort to any new work that is added.
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What does Burn-down Chart show?
1. Dependencies, start times & stop times for project tasks
2. Hierarchy of tasks that comprise a project
3. How much work remains until the end of the Sprint.
4. The evolution of the amount of uncertainty during a project.
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Various projective practices upon trending have been used to forecast progress, like burn- downs, burn-ups, or cumulative flows. These have proven useful. However, these do not replace the importance of empiricism. In complex environments, what will happen is unknown.
Only what has already happened may be used for forward-looking decision-making.
What is the Release Burn down?
1. A graph indicating what has been completed by the Scrum Team
2. A measure of the remaining Product Backlog across the time of a release plan
3. What has been completed by the Scrump Team to date
4. The work remaining to be completed by the Product Owner
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The purpose of a Burndown Chart is to ???
1. Visualize progress
2. Monitor blockers
3. Inspire the Dev Team
4. Create Opportunities
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What does estimation need to be done, relative to?
1. The time to other work
2. The effort of similar work
3. The scale of similar work
4. Enstein’s Theory of Relativity
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Velocity in an Agile environment refers to the average number of ?? a team can get through in a Sprint.
1. Points
2. Tasks
3. Projects
4. Lines of Code
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Sprint Velocity is the sum of the story points or other estimation units completed by a development team during a single sprint. Story points are a common unit of estimation used in Agile to represent the relative complexity or effort involved in completing a user story.
alculation:
Velocity is calculated at the end of each sprint by summing up the story points of all the user stories and tasks that were completed and delivered within that sprint.
Consistency:
Sprint Velocity is not meant to be a performance metric or a measure of individual productivity. Instead, it serves as a tool for the team to adapt and improve. If Velocity varies, the team can use this information to reflect on their processes during the Sprint Retrospective and make adjustments as needed.
Story Points and Relative Estimation:
Story points are a relative estimation unit, emphasizing the team’s collective judgment of the complexity and effort involved in completing a task.
It’s important to note that Sprint Velocity is specific to each individual team, and comparing Velocity between teams may not be meaningful due to differences in team composition, skills, and the nature of the work they are doing. Velocity is a tool for the team to understand its capacity and improve its planning and delivery over time.
Kanban Boards visualize work as a system of ???
1. Metrics
2. Flow
3. Logic
4. Cards
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