Scrum and Agile Jeopardy

From the Agile Manifesto to sprint ceremonies and story points — a review board any Scrum team can copy for free and play over a call with phones as buzzers.

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The Agile Manifesto

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The Agile Manifesto's first stated value favors individuals and interactions over this.
What are processes and tools?
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The Agile Manifesto's second stated value favors working software over this.
What is comprehensive documentation?
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The Agile Manifesto's third stated value favors customer collaboration over this.
What is contract negotiation?
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The Agile Manifesto's fourth stated value favors responding to change over this.
What is following a plan?
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This is the number of core principles listed beneath the four values in the Agile Manifesto.
What is twelve?

Scrum Roles

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This Scrum role is accountable for maximizing the value of the product and ordering the product backlog.
What is the Product Owner?
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This Scrum role helps the team follow Scrum practices and removes obstacles that block their progress, without directing their day-to-day work.
What is the Scrum Master?
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This term describes the group of people who actually build the product increment during a sprint.
What is the Development Team?
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The Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Developers together make up this single, accountable group.
What is the Scrum Team?
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This term describes someone with a stake in the product's outcome, such as a customer or executive, who is not part of the Scrum Team itself.
Who is a stakeholder?

Ceremonies and Events

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This time-boxed period, typically two to four weeks long, is when a Scrum team produces a usable product increment.
What is a sprint?
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This event kicks off a sprint, where the team decides what work from the backlog they will commit to completing.
What is Sprint Planning?
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This short daily event, time-boxed to about fifteen minutes, lets the Development Team synchronize and plan the next 24 hours.
What is the Daily Scrum?
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This end-of-sprint event lets the team demonstrate the completed increment to stakeholders and gather feedback.
What is the Sprint Review?
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This end-of-sprint event lets the team reflect on how they worked together and plan improvements for the next sprint.
What is the Sprint Retrospective?

Artifacts and Backlogs

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This ordered list contains everything known to be needed in the product, ranked by the Product Owner.
What is the Product Backlog?
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This subset of backlog items, selected and committed to for a single sprint, comes with a plan for delivering them.
What is the Sprint Backlog?
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This is the sum of all completed Product Backlog items during a sprint, combined with the value of every previous sprint's work.
What is the Increment?
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This user-focused format for writing a backlog item typically follows the pattern: as a user, I want a goal, so that I get a benefit.
What is a user story?
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This informal checklist defines the shared understanding of what conditions a backlog item must meet before it can be called complete.
What is the Definition of Done?

Estimation and Velocity

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This unit, often assigned using values from a modified Fibonacci sequence, estimates the relative effort of a backlog item rather than the hours it will take.
What are story points?
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This estimation technique has team members simultaneously reveal numbered cards to estimate a backlog item, avoiding anchoring on the first number spoken.
What is Planning Poker?
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This metric tracks the amount of work a Scrum team completes, on average, during a sprint, and is used to forecast future sprints.
What is velocity?
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This chart tracks the amount of work remaining in a sprint against time, ideally trending toward zero by the sprint's end.
What is a burndown chart?
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Unlike a burndown chart, this chart tracks total work completed over time, trending upward as a project or release progresses.
What is a burnup chart?

Beyond Scrum

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This visual board, divided into columns like To Do, In Progress, and Done, is central to a Japanese-originated workflow method.
What is a Kanban board?
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This principle, central to Kanban, caps the number of tasks allowed in a given workflow stage at once to expose bottlenecks.
What is a work-in-progress limit?
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This broader philosophy, adapted from Toyota's manufacturing system, focuses on maximizing value while minimizing waste.
What is Lean?
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This Japanese term, adopted into Lean and Kanban practice, refers to continuous incremental improvement involving everyone in an organization.
What is Kaizen?
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This scaling framework provides guidance for coordinating multiple Agile teams working on a single large product or portfolio.
What is SAFe?

Final Jeopardy — Agile History

Drafted at a Utah ski resort in 2001, this document lays out four values and twelve principles for software development.

What is the Agile Manifesto?

How to run this board

Whether your team is new to Scrum or has been sprinting for years, a shared vocabulary check never hurts. The six categories cover the Agile Manifesto, Scrum roles, ceremonies, artifacts and backlogs, estimation, and what lies beyond Scrum in Kanban and Lean.

Scrum masters can slot it into a training day, or use a shortened version to liven up a retrospective after a heavy sprint.

One tip: when a clue exposes disagreement about how your team actually works, write it down — those moments are usually worth more than the game itself.

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