Process
A time during which the team meets to reflect on the past sprint and develop actionable items or improvements in the process for future sprints.
What is the sprint retrospective?
Useful items you would find in your workbench and is something that helps us debug in browsers. You must get the full two-word phrase for points.
What are Dev(eloper) tools?
What is Material UI?
The Acronym for a programming standard that allows us to connect with external partners such as TTD.
What is an API?
Two Cloud-based web services where we host our infrastructure such as web servers and databases run by two of the largest tech companies in the world.
What are Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)?
A data warehousing company we partner with for processing Tradedesk's REDS (Raw Event Data Stream) feed.
Also, a nickname given to someone who is uniquely awesome.
What is Snowflake?
An acronym used to describe the visual interface and conceptual experience a USER would have in a web application.
What is UI/UX?
In this state, you are not allowed to run political ads or kill Sasquatch.
These values are used to estimate a unit of work.
OR an action you'd rudely do to blame someone else.
What are story points?
An application natively installed on your computer that allows for operations to be executed on a command line. MSDOS is a good guess, but not the answer we're looking for.
Also refers to the part of the airport where passengers transfer between ground transportation and concourses (in DIA speak).
What is terminal?
This acronym shared with the Canadian Sleep Society is also used to describe the styling language that makes the internet more than just plain text documents.
What is CSS?
Elastic Search is a service provider used in the platform to power the searching PMP deals and other searchable attributes.
Also, the result of a find "MON" and replacing "AL" in the word "MONgolia"
What is Algolia?
This Amazon cloud-based file Simple Storage Solution allows for easy retrieval and saving of data in the cloud.
What is Amazon S3?
Originally called SEQUEL, this acronym references a popular query language used to look up across multiple databases based on a common 'key' and perform various aggregating functions (SUM, COUNT, etc.).
What is SQL?
A Product Manager's role when they prioritize and refine the product backlog for the next sprint as defined by Scrum, an agile framework.
What is a Product Owner?
You are navigating through Choozle and stumble upon an elusive platform error. You reach out via this PREFERRED method for help.
What is a Tech Ops ticket in HubSpot?
Not a time for sitting down - this is the dedicated meeting each morning to discuss the progress of the pod's work.
What is a Stand-Up?
The cost of creating or ignoring inefficient code that will give the Client eXperience team headaches in the future. You must get the full two-word phrase for points.
What is technical debt?
Also, a 2005-2008 dating show on MTV which allowed contestants to dismiss dates with this one word.
What is Next.js?
This allows us to update our database with new table structures.
Also, Candian Geese do this in the southern direction in the winter.
What is a Migration?
DAILY DOUBLE
A program that allows us to package code into containers to be run on a web server.
Also, it references a place where one would go to board a boat.
What is Docker?
An Oakland-based company specializing in ELT, resulting in the syncing of multiple data sources in a single data warehouse, i.e., Snowflake.
It is used to power our unified reporting and data sync between services.
What is Fivetran?
The process by which the product team evaluates a feature candidate that involves:
- Market Research
- Reviewing #product-feedback submissions and other feedback sources
- Technology Research and evaluation
- BRICE Framework Analysis
- Assumption Mapping
- User Story Mapping
- Design Review
What is Product Discovery?
DAILY DOUBLE
This allows the platform to publish pixels (aka Tags) at Ensighten for placement within a Choozle client's smart container, but sometimes “You can’t always get what you want”
In emoji speak - 🏷🤖
What is Tagbot (Mick Tagger)?
DAILY DOUBLE
Our project management tool of choice. It is used for creating tickets and tracking work through our committed workflows. Provides transparency to the pod's effort each sprint.
Also, an easier way to go from one place to another.
What is Shortcut?
A way to work on different features at the same time without conflicting changes.
Trees grow upwards this way.
What is branching?
The version control system that makes Engineers say "You push, I'll pull".
Also, what one might say to a dog they want to go away.
What is Git?
The process of REstructuring existing code for optimal performance and REliability. This is a key FACTOR in addressing technical debt.
What is Refactoring or a Refactor?
This container orchestration tool allows us to deploy new code across multiple servers and is referred to as K8s or Kube. It allows for scaling both vertically (CPU, Memory, etc.) & horizontally (Replication)
What is Kubernetes?
The more honest name for 'Artificial Intelligence'
Also, robots that are still in school.
This framework for UI creation enforces reusability, consistency, ease, and modularity. It is the combination of a software approach, a component library with a design approach, and a design language/guide. The result is pieces of UI that have built-in consistency, speeding up development and design, and creating a shared language between engineers and designers.
What is a design system?
Named after a minute area of illumination on your computer’s display screen, this particular event also allows clients to pass-back revenue.
What is a Dynamic Pixel?
The process after "In Quality Assurance" and before "Ready for Production Deployment" where users test potentially releasable product increment (aka features) before it is released to customers. The goal is to deem the work acceptable 😉.
What is User Acceptance Testing?
A methodology for building software-as-a-service applications designed to enable portability and resilience when deployed to the web.
What is the Twelve-Factor App methodology?
The process by which software engineers combine different sources of code.
Also, the part of Survivor where Jeff Probst tells you to drop your buffs.
What is a Pull or Merge Request? Merge or Merging also acceptable answers.
A time-based job scheduler that allows us to run scripts (code) at regular intervals.
What is a Cron or Cronjob?
The basic scheduling unit of kubernetes, consisting of one or more containers co-located on a machine. Also describes the name of a group of orca whales.
What is a Pod?
One of the most popular programming languages for data scientists.
Also, a creature you'd hate to find in your garden.
What is Python?
This product design tool allows the team to prototype platform designs with limited actual functionality. This hands-on product experience is invaluable and assures engineers build what users want.
It is also the combination of the fruit a fig tree produces and a nickname for you mother.
What is Figma?
What is a Click Through URL?