Why Agile?
This is the area where Agile drives 10-50% happier, more motivated employees.
What is Engagement?
This is what we can staff in agile engagements, recognizing that they are not resources like electricity or water.
What are People?
This is the oldest form of agile practices and includes things like User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, and the building blocks for DevOps and CI/CD.
What is XP?
This role has the greatest amount of overlap with the traditional project manager, is the person responsible for the health of the backlog (definition, refinement and prioritization).
Who is the Product Owner?
Stories, features, and epics.
What is the work definition structure for scaled agile?
This is the area where Agile increased delivery by 20-50%.
What is Productivity?
These are predefined, highly structured, focused, and time bound, replacing meetings.
What are ceremonies or event?
This is the best known and most frequently implemented form of team agility.
What is Scrum?
This is the scrum expert who guides the team's practices and continuous improvement activities.
Who is the Scrum Master?
These replace business, functional, non-functional and technical requirements.
What are Acceptance Criteria?
This is the area where Agile reduces delivery lag by 30-75%.
What is Time to Market?
This replaces "project" and is intended to express a break with traditional delivery.
What is an engagement?
This is a type of agile team that originate and most associated with Lean and best supports a continuous flow of work like with support and maintenance organizations.
What is a Kanban team?
This is the 1 to 5 people who have all the skills, experience and knowledge needed to delivery the work.
Who is Dev or Delivery?
In scaled agile, this is often the most important backlog item, tracked and reported to clients and stakeholders.
What are Features?
This is the area where Agile does things like reduce defects by 25-75%.
What is Quality?
These are the 3 levels of planning that are used in sprint-based agility, replacing traditional project plans.
What are daily plan, sprint plan, and program increment plan?
This is a framework to scale agile and is the largest aggregation of agile practices, tools, and thought leadership.
What is SAFe?
These people are responsible for defining and providing the guidance for the business and technical ecosystem.
Who are the architects?
These are the biggest and longest-live backlog item.
What are Epics?
This is the percentage of companies who plan increase their agile adoption next year?
What is 40%?
Scrum Team, Kanban Team and Program Team
What are 3 examples of Agile Teams?
This is an example of "honorable mentions" in the house of agile, that have been adopted to follow the Agile Manifesto but are not necessarily agile.
What is Lean or Spotify?
This is the role is that is most often understaffed or not staffed at all but has been identified as the biggest differentiator between a successful or unsuccessful agile implementation or delivery.
Who are agile coaches?
These are called bug, defects, and tech debt in the traditional world.
What is work or a backlog item?