What does Guidewire provide as a starting point for your project? ✔️✔️Guidewire provides
approximately 5000 reusable assets/tools to facilitate progress during the implementation project.
What does Guidewire mean by Inception? ✔️✔️Guidewire projects include an inception phase
to confirm the scope of the project, produce an initial sizing, and create the project baseline.
What are the key objectives from Inception? ✔️✔️1. Formally kick off the project
2. Train the team on base product and methodology
3. Introduce the team to agile concepts
4. Determine an approach to address any product gaps
5. Document the high-level design (HLD) for integrations
6. Explain estimation changes as a result of the workshops
Who typically attends Inception? ✔️✔️Product owners, SMEs, business analysts, developers,
and testers
Why does Guidewire timebox Inception? ✔️✔️Guidewire timeboxes inception to avoid
collecting excessive details.
Name three best practices from Inception. ✔️✔️Utilize an agile methodology, map business
case to the themes /subthemes, estimate stories using points, introduce base product features and
, functionality, document key requirements on story cards, avoid deep discussions about detailed
requirements, manage time judiciously, assess product alignment for each user story, create new
story cards for gap stories, define a delivery backlog at the end of inception, assess business
value to help prioritize the Delivery backlog.
How do we estimate stories? When is this activity done? ✔️✔️Points. At the start of the
project and also validated during each sprint.
How and when do we estimate tasks? ✔️✔️Hours. Only in the current sprint as part of sprint
planning.
What is the reason we use points when estimating? ✔️✔️People are better at estimating
relative sizes, not the detailed hours. There is little value in estimating at this granularity until
you are ready to do the work.
Why is team capacity so important? ✔️✔️Allows you to know what the team can accomplish
during the sprint.
What is the maximum size recommended for any story? Why? ✔️✔️13 points (although 8 is
even better). It's the largest story that most teams can complete in a 4 week sprint.
What are the five steps completed during sprint planning? ✔️✔️1. Determine team capacity
2. Define sprint backlog