In order for the Product Backlog to be of value, what 3 elements must it have?

1. What is being asked for (the story)
2. Prioritized
3. Estimated (by the team)

What are the 3 C's of User Stories?

1. Card
2. Conversation
3. Confirmation

What are the extended roles of XP?

1. Tracker
2. Coach

What are the 5 values of Extreme Programming (XP)?

1. Simplicity
2. Communication
3. Respect
4. Feedback
5. Courage

1. Extreme Programming (XP)
2. Lean
3. Test Driven Development (TDD)
4. Scrum
5. Dynamic Systems Development (DSDM)
6. Feature Driven Development (FDD)

Agile Manifesto:  Individuals and Interactions over....

Agile Manifesto:  Working software over...

comprehensive documentation

Agile Manifesto:  Customer collaboration over....

Agile Manifesto:  Responding to change over....

Agile Principles:  The highest priority of Agile is...

Agile Principles:   Welcome changing requirements....

Agile Priniciples:  Deliver working software frequently....

Agile Principles:  Business people and developers must...

Agile Principles:  Build projects around...

Agile Principles:  the most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within the team is 

1. Available
2. Informed
3. Empowered

Agile Principles: Working software is..

Agile Principles: The primary measure of progress is...

Agile Principles: Continuous attention to _______ and _______ enhance agility.

technical excellence

good design

Agile Principles: Define simplicity

Agile Principles:  The best _____, _______ and _______ emerge from self organizing teams.

1. requirements
2. architectures
3. designs

Agile Principles: At regular intervals, hte team reflects on how to become more _______, then ______ and _____ its behavior accordingly.

1. effective
2. tunes
3. adjusts

In scrum, the number of points (story points) that a team can complete in one iteration is called.

What are the 3 artifacts of SCRUM?

1. Release Plan
2. Sprint Plan
3. Burn down chart

What are the 5 pillars of Lean?

1. The customer defines value
2. Map the Value Stream
3. Provide Continuous Flow
4. Pull not Push
5. Strive for Perfection

Making small improvements to the Value Stream is called...

Kaizen

Plan, Do, Check, Act (or Adjust)

1. Waiting
2. Overproduction
3. Re-work
4. Motion
5. Processing
6. Intellect
7. Inventory
8. Task Switching

What are the 3 ceremonies of SCRUM?

1. Sprint Planning
2. Daily Standup
3. Retrospective

What are the 3 roles of SCRUM?

1. Product Owner (voice of the customer)
2. Scrum Master (servant leader)
3. Team Member (Developer, tester, designer etc...)

Responsible

Accountable

Consulted

Informed

The scrum master focuses on the _______ while the project manager focuses on the ________.

1. team level
2. program level

What is on the x and y axis of an iteration burn down chart?

x= days

y = hours

What is on the x and y axis of a release burn down chart?

y = points

x = iteration

Who facilitates the retrospective meeting?

The role of an agile leader working with an empowered team is to delegate _______ for success and determine how to achieve _____ _____.

a. Responsibility and Project goals

b. Leadership and Team Organization

c. Support and Ongoing Objectives

d. Responsibility and Ongoing Objectives

What happens during the Review meeting at the end of a Sprint/Iteration?    (pick the best answer)
A. Review work completed, Product Owner confirms whether each story is "done", and demo of working software
B. Review work completed, Product Owner confirms whether each story is "done", and slideshow of working software
C. Demo to the Product Owner and any other Stakeholders who choose to attend
D. Team celebration

A. Review work completed, Product Owner confirms whether each story is "done", and demo of working software

What are the 3 strong motivators for performance tht lead to improved morale?

1. autonomy

2. mastery

3. purpose

In Agile, emperical process is defined as

acknowledgement that some things are not predictable and that you may not know everything up front.

The primary constraint in Agile development is

schedule

The delivery date is fixed, therefore costs are fixed.  Only scope/features are changed.

1. Determine available project time
2. Determine iteration length
3. Break down features into stories
4. Esimate user stories
5. Prioritize user stories
6. Select stories for the iterations and release date

1. Planning Game
2. Refactoring
3. Paried Programming
4. Continuous Integration
5. Sustainable Pace
6. Collective Ownership
7. Coding Standards
8. Metaphor
9. Test Driven Development
10. Simple Design
11. Small Releases
12. Acceptance Tests

The primary role of the scrum master is to

serve and protect the team

What are the 4 simple rules best teams follow?

1. Start and finish as a team
2. Self direction
3. Collocation
4. Shared vulnerability

Effective communication requires three elements.  They are:

1. Clarity
2. Frequency
3. Medium

What are the major characteristics that are part of the Code of Ethics?

1. Honesty
2. Fairness
3. Respect
4. Responsibility

What are the 5 levels of planning and who is responsible for each level of planning?

1. Vision (yearly by product owner)

2. Roadmap (bi-yearly by product owner)

3. Release (quarterly by team) - stories

4. Iteration/Sprint (bi-weekly by team) - tasks

5. Daily Standup (daily by team) - specific activities

What are the 3 elements of a charter?

1. Vision
2. Mission
3. Success criteria

The 6 components of an elevator pitch are:

1. For the target customer
2. Who need/opportunity
3. The product
4. That benefits
5. Unlike competitor
6. Our product is different

What 3 levels is priority determined?

1. Themes

2. Epics

3. User Stories

What are the benefits of identifying user roles in Agile?

Helps to drive out features and needs

Define INVEST as it relates to user stories.

Independent

Negotiable

Valuable

Estimable

Small

Testable

Foundational stories

Constraints

Constraints are not part of the backlog, but should be posted on the team wall with the definition of done.

Constraints cannot be removed until the project is done.

What are 5 ways of assigning prioritization?

1. Financial Value

2. Business Value

3. Cost of developing and supporting

4. Significance of new technology

5. High Risk Features

Kano and Moscow are prioritization techniques.  Identify the elements of Kano

Must Have / Should Have

Satisfiers

Delighters

Dissatisfiers

Time based estimating; that assumes you are focused on just that one item, but does NOT assume nothing will go wrong is called what?

Ideal Time

This is typically used in a traditional project approach

A valuable long term predictor that is measured in story points and is a measure of the team's throughput is called?

Name 3 Relative Estimating techniques

1. Triangulation
2. Bracketing
3. Affinity
4. Comparison

What are the 2 relative measures of story points?

Size

Complexity

What are 4 types of agile modeling and when is modeling used?

1. Whiteboard
2. Process flows
3. Use cases
4. Wireframes
5. Mockups

These are techniques used in story reviews

The 3 questions that should be answere by each team member during the daily standup are what?

1. What did I accomplish yesterday.
2. What will I accomplish today?
3. What impediments are keeping me from reaching my goals?

What are the 7 key principles of Lean?

1. Eliminate waste
2. Create knowledge
3. Build in quality
4. Defer commitment
5. Optimize the whole
6. Deliver fast
7. Respect people