Agile Planning & Estimation Flashcards
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Which statement best describes the impact of technical debt on Agile planning?
Answer: Accumulated technical debt reduces team velocity over time by increasing the cost of future changes
Unaddressed technical debt slows teams down progressively because shortcuts create rework, fragile code, and longer cycle times for future stories.
Timeboxing in Agile refers to:
Answer: Fixing the duration of an iteration so the team adjusts scope rather than extending time
Timeboxing fixes the length of an iteration and encourages the team to deliver the highest-priority work within that constraint rather than extending the deadline.
When should a team consider re-estimating stories already in the product backlog?
Answer: When significant new information changes the complexity or scope of those stories
Re-estimation is appropriate when new technical discoveries, changed requirements, or dependencies materially alter a story's complexity or risk.
A product roadmap in Agile primarily serves to:
Answer: Communicate a high-level, time-oriented vision of the product direction while remaining adaptable
An Agile product roadmap communicates strategic direction and anticipated milestones while remaining flexible enough to incorporate learning and change.
Capacity planning for a sprint differs from velocity-based planning in that capacity planning:
Answer: Accounts for individual team member availability, vacation, and non-project commitments within the sprint
Capacity planning adjusts for real-world availability — days off, meetings, part-time allocation — while velocity-based forecasting uses historical throughput averages.
What does 'Yesterday's Weather' forecasting technique in Agile suggest?
Answer: Teams should plan next sprint using the story points completed in the previous sprint as a baseline
Yesterday's Weather is the simple heuristic that the best predictor of how many story points a team will complete next sprint is how many they completed last sprint.
In Agile analysis, an estimation bias known as 'anchoring' occurs when:
Answer: Early estimates disproportionately influence subsequent estimates, skewing the final result
Anchoring bias occurs when the first number stated in a discussion disproportionately pulls subsequent estimates toward it, which Planning Poker's simultaneous reveal is designed to prevent.