Burn-down Chart - Answers- A chart which shows the amount of work which is thought
to remain in a backlog. Time is shown on the horizontal axis and work remaining on the
vertical axis. As time progresses and items are drawn from the backlog and completed,
a plot line showing work remaining may be expected to fall. The amount of work may be
assessed in any of several ways such as user story points or task hours. Work
remaining in Sprint Backlogs and Product Backlogs may be communicated by means of
a burn-down chart. See also: Burnup Chart
Burn-up Chart - Answers- A chart which shows the amount of work which has been
completed. Time is shown on the horizontal axis and work completed on the vertical
axis. As time progresses and items are drawn from the backlog and completed, a plot
line showing the work done may be expected to rise. The amount of work may be
assessed in any of several ways such as user story points or task hours. The amount of
work considered to be in-scope may also be plotted as a line; the burn-up can be
expected to approach this line as work is completed.
Coherent/Coherence - Answers- The quality of the relationship between certain Product
Backlog items which may make them worthy of consideration as a whole. See also:
Sprint Goal.
Daily Scrum - Answers- Scrum Event that is a 15-minute time-boxed event held each
day for the Developers. The Daily Scrum is held every day of the Sprint. At it, the
Developers plans work for the next 24 hours. This optimizes team collaboration and
performance by inspecting the work since the last Daily Scrum and forecasting
upcoming Sprint work. The Daily Scrum is held at the same time and place each day to
reduce complexity.
Definition of Done - Answers- A formal description of the state of the Increment when it
meets the quality measures required for the product. The moment a Product Backlog
item meets the Definition of Done, an Increment is born. The Definition of Done creates
transparency by providing everyone a shared understanding of what work was
completed as part of the Increment. If a Product Backlog item does not meet the
Definition of Done, it cannot be released or even presented at the Sprint Review.
Definition of Done Continued - Answers-
Developer - Answers- Any member of a Scrum Team, that is committed to creating any
aspect of a usable Increment each Sprint regardless of technical, functional or other
specialty.
, Forecast (of functionality) - Answers- The selection of items from the Product Backlog
Developers deems feasible for implementation in a Sprint.
Increment - Answers- Scrum Artifact that defines the complete and valuable work
produced by the Developers during a Sprint. The sum of all Increments form a product.
One step towards the product goal, or a concrete stepping stone toward the product
goal. Might be the blog section of the site. Each sprint should deliver an increment. An
increment is done when it reaches the definition of done.
Product Backlog - Answers- A Scrum Artifact that consists of an ordered list of the work
to be done in order to create, maintain and sustain a product. Managed by the Product
Owner.
Emergent, Ordered by priority, Single Source
The requirements and a product backlog are the same thing and you should only have
the product backlog.
Product Backlog refinement - Answers- The activity in a Sprint through which the
Product Owner and the Developers add granularity to the Product Backlog.
Product Backlog refinement Continued - Answers-
Product Owner - Answers- Role in Scrum accountable for maximizing the value of a
product, primarily by incrementally managing and expressing business and functional
expectations for a product to the Developers.
Product Goal - Answers- The Product Goal describes a future state of the product
which can serve as a target for the Scrum Team to plan against. The Product Goal is in
the Product Backlog. The rest of the Product Backlog emerges to define "what" will fulfill
the Product Goal.
Emergence - Answers- The process of the coming into existence or prominence of new
facts or new knowledge of a fact, or knowledge of a fact becoming visible unexpectedly.
Empiricism - Answers- Process control type in which only the past is accepted as
certain and in which decisions are based on observation, experience and
experimentation. Empiricism has three pillars: transparency, inspection and adaptation.
Engineering standards - Answers- A shared set of development and technology
standards that Developers apply to create releasable Increments of software.
Ready - Answers- A shared understanding by the Product Owner and the Developers
regarding the preferred level of description of Product Backlog items introduced at
Sprint Planning.
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