Scrum Learnings

Three Pillars of Scrum

• Transparency
• Inspection
• Adaptation

Scrum Team & Roles (comprises of FIVE to NINE members 7+-2 excluding the SM & PO)

• Product Owner
• Scrum Master
• Development

Key Terms

• Product Backlog
• All work to be performed in the foreseeable future, both well-defined and that requires further definition
• Sprint 
• period of 30 days or less within which a set of work will be performed to create a deliverable
• Spring Backlog
• A well-defined requirement that can be worked on with little change, 
• over 30 days or less,
• resulting in a tangible, potentially shippable incremental deliverable
• Scrum
• A daily meeting at which progress and impediments to progress are reviewed

- Release Backlog (Shortlisted prioritized items ready for a Sprint execution)

- Visibility and Velocity

Scrum Meetings

• Sprint Planning
• Daily Stand-Up Meeting
• Sprint Review
• Retrospection

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XP - Extreme Programming

XP

• respond to high cost of changing requirements; and
• establish strong engineering practices to improve software quality

XP introduced revolutionary concepts, such as:

• Test Driven Development;
• Continous Integration;
• Iterations; and
• User Stories

Five Core Principles of XP

• Communication
• Simplicity
• Feedback
• Courage
• Respect

XP Practices

• Fine-scale feedback
• Pair-Programming
• Planning Game
• Test-Driven Development
• Whole Team
• Continuous Process
• Continuous Integration
• Refactoring or design improvement
• Small releases
• Shared Understanding
• Coding standards
• Collective code ownership
• Simple design
• System Metaphor
• Programmer Welfare
• Sustainable pace

AnyPoint Studio 7 Beta

 These are some of new features and improvements in Studio 7 beta:

* Improved palette which enables users to more quickly discover what they’re looking for by searching directly for operations and saving favorites.
* Users can now explicitly manage which connectors and modules are associated with a project.
* Connectors and modules are now managed directly by Anypoint Studio, and do not require users to manage update sites.
* Easily navigate to code from visual view by right clicking on a component and clicking “View XML”
* Maven is now embedded out of the box inside Studio. Additionally, every project now has a Maven POM, making it easier to incorporate projects into CI/CD systems.
* Flows and scopes are now collapsable.
* Updated icons make flows easier to read.
* DataSense metadata is now stored in a human readable format this is easier to share, commit and merge.
* Support for importing API specifications from Design Center
* Improved user experience for connector and modules
* Simplified experience to manage credentials when logging into the Anypoint Platform