Artefacts
Agile Artefacts
What are the core elements of agile frameworks that help promote focus, quality, and create transparency?
Agile IQ® Academy ™
Stage TWO
Agile IQ® Score: 49-92
Learning Areas: Stage Two Teams
Facilitation Guides
Backlog Refinement
Getting on top of your Product Backlog is a key element of improved agility
Practices
Build-in Quality
Built-in Quality is a critical principle of agile teams that ensures the quality of their product. A robust Definition of Done is key.
Facilitation Guides
Daily Scrum
Inspecting progress toward the Sprint Goal empowers a team to adapt its Sprint Backlog
Facilitation Guides
Daily Scrum isn’t a status report
Inspecting progress toward the Sprint Goal empowers a team to adapt its Sprint Backlog
Practices
DEEP
How do you slice Product Backlog items so that they can be delivered in a single Sprint?
Definition of Done
Definition of Done
What is the Definition of Done and how do you use it to improve quality and reduce rework?
Roles
Developer
Developers are the people in the Scrum Team that are committed to creating any aspect of a usable Increment each Sprint.
Product Management
Difference between Scrum Master and Project Manager
What does it take to lead an Agile Release Train as its Product Manager?
People
Encouraging Team Work
How do you help members of the team to be mutually committed to the goals and to each other?
Estimation
Estimation Essentials – Does it fit in a Sprint?
What do you do if work is too large to fit into a Sprint?
Estimation
Exemplars for baselines to help with estimation
Creating a baseline for estimation speeds up estimation and makes it more accurate.
Facilitation Guides
Facilitation Prompts for Scrum Masters
Teams’ agility improves when the Scrum Master supports self-organisation with these simple phrases and facilitation patterns
Process
Go beyond ‘What Worked’, ‘What Didn’t Work’ in Retrospectives
The “What Worked”, “What Didn’t” gets boring quickly. Learn how to mix things up in Retrospectives to keep them fresh.
Definition of Done
How to use the Definition of Done in Sprint Planning
The Definition of Done is a vital part of Sprint Planning, indicating the quality, standards, and compliance criteria for an Increment of Done
Flow
INVEST
How do you slice Product Backlog items so that they can be delivered in a single Sprint?
Practices
Prioritisation by Value and WSJF
Weighted, shortest job first is a practice from SAFe to prioritise Epics and Features
Artefacts
Product Backlog
The Product Backlog is the single source of any work undertaken by the team. It serves as their single source of truth in terms of approved work and t
Product Management
Product Manager
What does it take to lead an Agile Release Train as its Product Manager?
