POPM Lesson 3 & 4

What is essential when communicating the Vision?

• The importance of Lean budget Guardrails

• The importance of empathy interviews

• The importance of Feature prioritization

• The importance of non-functional requirements

Which is developed by teams and rolled up to the ART level during PI Planning?

• Dependencies

• ART PI Risks

• PI Objectives

• Milestones

What helps visualize work during PI Planning?

• ART PI Risks

• ART Planning Board

• ART Predictability Measure

• ART Confidence Vote

Teams present their draft plans with draft PI Objectives, potential risks, and.......?

• Team Vision

• Level of Confidence

• Whether they will use Scrum or Kanban

• Dependencies

What does "R" stand for when writing SMART objectives ?

• Relevant

• Risky

• Realistic

• Robust

What happens in case the Business Owners do not accept the final plan ?

• The ART does the confidence vote

• Teams continue planning after the review

• Management is called as an escalation step

• Teams ignore the feedback and finish the PI planning

What is the next action for improvement items identified during the Iteration Retrospective?

• They are given to the Scrum Master/Team Coach who resolves them

• They are entered as Stories in the Team Backlog

• They are escalated to the Business Owners

• They are ROAMed with the rest of the risks

What is a pattern for splitting Features into Stories?

• Layers of the technology stack

• Tasks to complete

• Variations in data

• Team skills

What makes value available when it's needed?

• DevOps

• Continuous Deployment

• Infrastructure

• Release on Demand

What can increase the effectiveness of Backlog Refinement?

• Have separate meetings with subject matter experts

• Schedule the event on a regular cadence

• Include a few team members

• Refine Stories during Iteration Planning