5 exercises — sprint, backlog, velocity, retrospective, epic, and more terms your whole team uses every day.
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In Scrum, a sprint is best described as:
A sprint is a time-boxed iteration — typically 1 to 4 weeks — during which the Scrum team works on a set of selected backlog items and produces a working, potentially shippable increment.
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Complete the sentence: "The team couldn't complete all the stories — they had too much work in the _____, so items were pushed to the next sprint."
The sprint backlog contains the work selected for the current sprint. If items are not completed, they return to the product backlog for re-prioritisation.
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Which term means "the measure of work a team can complete in a single sprint"?
Velocity is the average number of story points a team completes per sprint, used to forecast future work capacity. A burndown chart shows daily progress within a sprint.
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A retrospective is a Scrum ceremony where the team:
The sprint retrospective (retro) is focused on the team's process, not the product. The team discusses what went well, what didn't, and what to change. It's different from the sprint review (demo to stakeholders).
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"We need to break this epic into smaller stories." In Agile, an epic is:
An epic is a large feature or requirement that is too big to complete in a single sprint. It is decomposed into smaller user stories (or simply stories) that can be estimated and completed within a sprint.