A project management methodology/approach decomposing a project into phases and perform a collaboration and improvement through a cycle of planning, execution, and evaluation.
Figure 1.1 – Agile Ceremonies Cycle
Agile Ceremonies
Question : – What do you know about the Agile ceremonies?
- Answer: – Sprint Planning, Daily, Grooming, Review/ Demo, Retrospective.
Sprint Retrospective
It is one of the ceremony of sprint that could let us to get information about the team activity throughout the sprint period. The following three points are going to be addressed
- ‘What Went Well‘
- ‘What Went Bad’
- ‘What to Improve’
Team Compostions
Question : – Name scrum team composition including their Role
- Answer: – Scrum Master, Produce Specialist, Development Team[Developers, UI/Ux, and Testers]
Descriptions of each people role in scrum team
- Scrum Master : – Facilitate the development process to be conducted smoothly. Resolve any impediment, creating meeting wherever necessary, train people about the agile or scrum work flow, provide solution/improvement for better work flow that could benefit and make the team effective/efficient.
- Product Specilist : – Discuss wit business and prepare the necessary Epic, Featyresm and stories to groom with the development team and prioritize the requirements
- Developers : – are responsible for taking care of development and related activities. The group that are composed of are the following
- Developer : – Fix issues Bugs, Regression , Incidents as they are reported by testers, business people as well.
- UI/UX : – Are creating mock or design of user requirements and standardize also different UI to be developed.
- Testers : – are working on quality – meaning making sure that the developed solution is working as it is expected and required. In addition to this documenting user requirements in their test plan, perform regression round.
Sprint
It is a duration/period of two week that members in a team work together to reach to a product increment that is already defined during sprint planning. In this sprint period,
- Developers perform development, deliver their solution,
- Tester Perform Functional test, document user requirements – Report any bugs and regression, conduct regression round before any release to make sure that the product is free of any issues to maximize customers satisfaction.
- Produce Specialist– Groom new stories, and features that is going to be addressed in the current or upcoming sprint as per the priority of the business needs.
Work Items
Work items are responsible for performing various activities in product development activities. The following are considered the work items to be utilized
- Features
- Product Backlogged Items/Stories
- Incidents
- Technical User Stories
- Bug
- Regression Bug
- Task
- Impediment
- Other work Items