Blast from the Past
Feb 11 -13, 2001
When was the Agile Manifesto published?
Yesterday's weather is tomorrow's forecast!
What is Velocity?
This is the primary measure of success!
What is Working Software?
This person manages dependencies and facilitates the Scrum of Scrums.
Who is the Release Train Engineer (RTE)?
An Agile Project management tool designed to help visualize work, limit work in progress and maximize efficiency (flow).
What is the Kanban Board?
This approach predominant during the 1980's and the 1990's defined major phases of the application development life-cycle, from requirements to deployment.
What is the Waterfall Approach?
The graphical representation of how many story points have been completed during the sprint and how many remain and helps forecast if the sprint scope will be completed on time.
What is the Burndown Chart?
This is the most efficient way to convey information to your development team.
What is Face to Face conversation?
This person acts as the servant leader for the team.
Who is the Scrum Master?
The Agile estimating and planning technique that is consensus based.
What is Planning Poker?
As a result of initial push-back to the Waterfall model, was this model proposed by James Martin that aimed at reducing the preparation stage and to quickly get into development. This would allow the business could begin to collaborate right away with the development team by seeing a working prototype in just a few days or weeks.
What is Rapid Application Development Model?
Time from Ideation to Creation?
What is Lead Time?
Contiuous attention to Technical Excellence and ____________ boosts Agility
What is Good Design ?
The project's key stakeholder whose responsibility is to have a vision of what needs to be build and conveys it to the other members of the scrum team.
Who is the Product Owner (PO)?
A list of the new features, changes to existing features, bug fixes, infrastructure changes or other activities that a team may deliver in order to achieve a specific outcome.
What is the Product Backlog?
To respond to the Fast changing market needs.
What was the need for Agile in Software development
The average amount of time the team needs from the moment they pull a piece of work till it is ready to be implemented.
What is Cycle Time?
The best Requirements, Architecture and Design emerge from this.
What are Self Organizing Teams?
This person owns the product road-map, advocates for the product internally and represents the customer in meetings with development.
Who is the Product Manager?
A 15 min daily meeting for the team to discuss what they’re working on and whether there are any problems or dependencies they need to resolve.
What are Stand Ups?
Mike Beedle
Arie van Bennekum
Alistair Cockburn
Ward Cunningham
Martin Fowler
Jim Highsmith
Andrew Hunt
Ron Jeffries
Jon Kern
Brian Marick
Robert C. Martin
Ken Schwaber
Jeff Sutherland
Dave Thomas
Who are the signatories of the Agile Manifesto?
This measures whether the users will recommend the software to others, do nothing or recommend against the software.
What is Net Promoter Score (NPS)?
This is the highest priority when it comes to being Agile.
What is Customer Satisfaction through Early and Continuous Delivery?
This person lays out the high level solution and defines the technology to support it. And is responsible for High level estimates of Initiatives?
Who is the Chief Architect?
These are regular meetings where your whole team talks about what’s going well and what isn’t.
What are Retrospectives?