Right Answer: Agile ceremonies are recurring meetings within a sprint to facilitate communication, planning, and continuous improvement.
* **Sprint Planning:** The team decides what work to complete in the upcoming sprint. They discuss user stories, estimate effort, and define the sprint goal.
* **Daily Stand-up:** A brief daily meeting where the team shares progress, identifies roadblocks, and coordinates efforts. Each member typically answers: What did I do yesterday? What will I do today? Are there any impediments?
* **Sprint Review:** The team demonstrates the completed work to stakeholders, gathering feedback and ensuring alignment with expectations.
* **Sprint Retrospective:** The team reflects on the past sprint, identifying what went well, what could be improved, and defining action items to enhance future performance.
Right Answer: The Scrum Master is a servant-leader who helps the Scrum Team follow the Scrum framework. They facilitate Scrum events (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective), remove impediments, protect the team from distractions, and coach the team on Agile principles and practices.
Right Answer: Cross-functional teams in Agile are important because they bring together all the necessary skills to complete work without dependencies on other teams. This leads to faster delivery, better problem-solving, and increased innovation. To foster collaboration, encourage open communication, shared understanding of goals, mutual respect, and a focus on collective ownership.
Right Answer: During a sprint, I generally avoid scope creep. If a change request is small and doesn't impact the sprint goal, the team can discuss and decide if it can be included. If the change is significant, it goes into the product backlog to be prioritized for a future sprint.
* **Individuals and interactions** over processes and tools.
* **Working software** over comprehensive documentation.
* **Customer collaboration** over contract negotiation.
* **Responding to change** over following a plan.
That is, while the items on the right have value, we value the items on the left more.
