What is the general scrum appraoch?
Customer focused
Timeboxed (Iterative)
Embrace Change and Uncertainty
What is the role of the Product Owner in scrum?
Central Point of Product Leadership
Groom the product backlog
Collaborate with the development team
Collaborate with stakeholders
What is the role of the Scrum Master in scrum?
Helps everyone involved understand Scrum values, principles and practices
- Coach
- Servant leader
- Process authority
- Impediment remover
What is the role of the Development Team in scrum?
Responsible for performing the development work
-Cross-functional Skills Diverse range of skills -T-shaped skills Deep knowledge in one area and shallow knowledge in many areas -Musketeer attitude All for one and one for all -Right sized 5 to 9 team members -Communication Transparent and high bandwidth
What does Scaling Scrum mean?
Create Hierarchical Product Backlogs
Deploy multiple scrum teams
-Scrum teams should remain small and agile
What is a sprint?
A sprint is a short duration development activity resulting in something of tangible value to the customer or user
- Timeboxed lasting between 1 week to 30 days
- Fixed scope - Goal altering changes are not allowed
- Central development unit around which much of the scrum planning process takes place
Sprint Planning
Establishes the content for the next sprint
Derived from the Product Backlog that may contain weeks or months of work
What long does sprint planning take place
Spring planning is typically performed in 4 to 8 hours
What happens during a sprint planning meeting?
- During sprint planning, the product owner and development team agree upon a sprint goal that defines what the upcoming sprint is supposed to achieve
- Review product backlog to determine high priority items that can be accomplished in the upcoming sprint
- Features are broken out into sets of tasks
- An estimate of the effort required to complete each is provided
- Sprint planning is typically performed in 4 to 8 hours
What are the 3 questions for the daily scrum meeting?
What did I accomplish since the last daily scrum
What do I plan to work on by the next daily scrum
What are the obstacles or impediments that are preventing me from making progress
What does Sprint Done mean?
A potentially shippable product increment
Definition of Done Varies Depending on
- The nature of the product being built
- The technologies being used to build it
- The organization that is building it
- The current impediments that affect what is possible
Useful to have a Checklist
What is the goal of Sprint Review
The goal is to inspect and adapt the product that is being built
- Focus on reviewing the just completed features in the context of the overall development effort
- Communication intensive activity among all stakeholders
What is the goal of Sprint Retrospective
Focus on the scrum process and process improvement
-Development team, product owner, and scrum master come together to discuss what is working and not working
