1 Agile Principles
Pick one of the 12 Principles and find some examples of this being applied in practice.
2 Minimum Viable Product
If you were to design an investment platform where people could make a monthly payment that is then invested and a small percentage is paid to our platform. How could an MVP look like?
What does it require for us to earn money?
What is the earliest testable prototype? What is the earliest valuable prototype?
4 Scrum Accountabilities and Artifacts
Using the Scrum Guide, who (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Development Team, Stakeholders) is then responsible, accountable, consulted and informed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matrix ) and why for:
- Planning
- Sprints
- Retrospectives
- Sprint Review
- Daily Standup
5 Scrum and Agile Princples
- Using the three pillars of Scrum and the events, which Agile Principle relates to what Scrum Event, Role or pillar?
- Scrum have some core values. How does these relate to the Agile values and principles?
6 Sprint Length
How does the sprint length correlate to the Houston Matrix? Or Barry Boehms Planning Spectrum? What about Cynefin?
Where would a 1 week sprint fit, compared to a 4 week sprint?
How could you make a one day sprint? How would that look like?
7 MVP And Scrum
Must we implement a full MVP in one sprint? Why? Why not?
Who decides if the product increment goes into production?
8 Scrum Team
Who is in a Scrum Team?
What accountabilites? What profiles? Stakeholders? Users? Managers?
9 “Agile” in Many Organisations
In a semi-plan/semi-agile organisation we have a Project Manager, a Team Lead and a Development Team. Many organisations find the especially the Scrum Master role difficult to understand. Why do you think that is the case?
- Why is the Scrum Master often depicted with a cap and a whistle?
- Why is the Product Owner often depicted with a tie?
10 Plan Orientation, an Elevator Pitch
With the knowledge you have now, create an 5 minutes elevator pitch on why and when to use a Plan Oriented approach.