Product 101 Flashcards
(24 cards)
What is Agile?
An iterative approach to deliver value to stakeholders quickly.
What is scrum?
A framework to support teams in complex product development.
Consists of two-week iterative sprints where we build the most valuable features first.
What is a Sprint?
A short time-boxed period when a scrum team works to complete a set amount of work.
What does the INVEST mnemonic stand for?
Independent
Negotiable
Valuable to users or customer
Estimable
Small
Testable
What are the thee roles in scrum squads?
The scrum team
Product owner
Scrum master (project manager)
What are the five main Agile ceremonies in scrum?
Sprint planning
Daily standup
Grooming (PBR)
Sprint review
Sprint retrospective
What are estimations?
Knowing a story’s complexity, risk, uncertainty, and the work needed to accomplish it.
What questions do user stories and epics address?
Who
What
When
Why
NOT how!
What tools does a scrum master use for squad management and improvement?
Burn down / burn up charts
Jira dashboards
Sprint metrics
What is a backlog?
A repository of all upcoming work. Not committal, more like a wish list.
What is a burn-down?
A graphical representation of work left to do versus time.
What is cycle time?
A measure of the elapsed time when work starts on an item until it’s ready for delivery. Tells how long in calendar time it takes to complete a task.
What is Definition of done?
Used to assess when a user story has been completed. (Each scrum squad has its own definition of done)
What are epics?
Significant initiatives that help guide value streams toward the larger aim of the portfolio.
Investment intensive, require analysis of cost, impact, and opportunity in a lightweight business case.
What is a feature
A service provided by the system that fulfills the stakeholder needs.
What is the Kanban method?
A means to design manage and improve flow for knowledge work and allows squads to start where they are to strive evolutionary change
What is PI planning?
The seminal cadence-based l, face-to-face planning event that serves as the heartbeat of the Agile Release Train.
What is a Product Owner?
The squad member responsible for defining stories and prioritizing the team backlog.
What is a retrospective?
A meeting held at the end of an iteration in Agile Software Development (ASD). During this time, the squad reflects on what happened in the iteration and identifies actions for improvement going forward.
What are stand-ups?
A daily meeting (aka morning roll call or daily scrum). A crucial feature for communication opportunity among the team members and not a status update to management or stakeholders.
What are stories?
The primary artifact used to define system behavior in Agile development.
Short, simple descriptions of a small piece of desired functionality, usually told from the users’ perspective.
What are story points?
An abstract measure of effort required to implement a user story. It is a number that tells the team about the difficulty level of the story.
*Difficulty could be related to complexities, risks? And efforts involved.
What is the Tuckman Stage?
A four stage process:
Forming
Storming
Norming
And Performing
(Created by Bruce Tuckman)
What is velocity?
A measure of the amount of work a team can tackle during a single sprint and is the key metric in scrum.
*calculated by the total amount of points for all fully completed user stories
