Product Owner Flashcards
(38 cards)
A legacy list of requirements is…
a liability, not an asset
Strategies to prioritize the backlog
business value - how much money we’ll make
business risk - what’s the risk and how we can mitigate
technical necessity - what do we need to do first technically to move ahead?
the 20/30/50 rule
20% of the backlog should be well refined able to be picked up and worked on
30% suitable for a productive discussion with others
50% summary and possibly a description
last responsible moment
the act of delaying the decision until the cost of not making one becomes greater than the cost of making it
DEEP for product backlogs
Detailed Appropriately
Estimated
Emergent
Prioritized
Elements of the Product Backlog Item
concise description of the intent of the item
estimate of the effort required
estimate of the business value the item will yield
order in the product backlog
Each item should require 3-5 pieces of ____
acceptance criteria
If some items have more than 5 acceptance criteria
break down the item
Sprint planning consists of 2 parts:
- PO introduces sprint objective and the items that will support it - Dev team debates and estimates and selects top items to go to sprint backlog
- Dev team creates a plan to tackle each item for the sprint
Sprint planning is timeboxed to
8 hours for 1 month sprints and proportionately lower for shorter sprints (4 hours for 2 weeks)
Estimate in
complexity points, not time
Fibonacci sequence 0 to 21, 1 point = half-day’s effort
Planning poker
everyone gets a deck of cards from 1 to 21
each votes for the item
if everyone places the same card, we’ll move on
if not, we discuss and do it again after the discussion
until the majority agrees
Estimates should encompass
everything, testing and dev
Estimates are a forecast, not a
commitment
Daily Scrum key aspects
timeboxed to 15 mins
enables planning at the daily level
keeps everyone aligned and on track
Daily Scrum is not a
status update meeting but a planning meeting
3 questions to answer at the daily scrum
what did i do yesterday to bring us closer to the spring goal
what will i do today to bring us closer
what is impeding my progress
Removing the impediments from the path is the responsibility of
the scrum master, however, the PO can help out
Participants of the daily scrum meeting
the dev team, not PO & SM (they can be there but they don’t have to speak)
Scrum team should commit ___% of their time to refinement
10%
Backlog refinement requires
1 hour of commitment per week
not all members are required to be in it
scrum masters are not required - usually a rep from every function
Blocking and Tackling…
the first week of refinement is blocking: build an ordered list of items to be considered for the next sprint
tackling: refine each item so that it can be discussed in the next sprint
Goals of Blocking
- Explain the objective of next sprint
- Explain how each item selected contributes to that
- Identify any issues that would block any item from selection for the next sprint
- Take action items for any issues that are unable to be resolved during the session
Goals of Tackling
- Consider each selected item in more detail
- Review Acceptance criteria for each item
- Discuss supporting materials such as wireframes
- Follow up on outstanding action items
