Intro to Agile
The Agile mindset is comprised of this many principles.
12
Fill in the blank with one word: “Agile is a ____.”
Mindset
A way to gather user requirements that helps us take on the perspective of our customer. One format is: “Given (scenario), when(user action), then (expected functionality).
A User Story
This is the Agile principle that encourages interactions between people to be more human with each other and does not necessarily need to be “in-person.”
"Face-to-face is best"
This person's superpower was focus and the ability to tune out everything around them.
Agnes!
Agile values THIS over processes and tools.
Individuals and interactions
A team that has the autonomy to choose how best to accomplish their work, rather than being directed by others outside of the team, is called this.
A Self-Organizing Team
This is one of the human-centered design methods we covered that help us understand how customers interact with your services.
Empathy maps
Journey maps
Personas
This is the Agile principle described as “the art of maximizing the work not done.”
Simplicity
This is the public service profession DeAngelo used to be in.
Firefighter
(Military service member also accepted!)
Agile values THIS over following a plan.
Responding to change
A concept that allows us to create environments of trust, free of judgment or punishment, is called this.
Psychological Safety
This 3-letter term describes a product that has been minimally developed but meets the baseline requirements of the user. It's typically used to get fast feedback and to spur future iterations.
MVP (minimum viable product)
A team may consider limiting this and experiment with how it increases or decreases their output during a given iteration.
Work in Progress (WiP)
This teammate enjoys listening to podcasts about poetry.
Clarance!
This Japanese term describes the phases for mastering any knowledge or practice.
Shu-Ha-Ri
(Follow the Rule - Be the Rule - Break the Rule)
These are the 5 stages of Tuckman's Model Phases of Team Development
What are:
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing
Adjourning
This is where Agile teams often put new ideas they have gathered from their customers, and is a good place to help teams prioritize ideas against other ideas.
The Backlog
This is an ongoing, neverending effort to enhance products and services based on user feedback and team retrospectives.
Continuous Improvement
This was the name of the fictional user persona created by Rebecca and the Software M&O team?
"Ima User"
This was flagged as the "Critical!" step in Kotter’s Model for Successful Change?
Communicate for Buy-in
This is the #1 thing leaders can do in order to empower their teams.
Create and communicate a guiding purpose/vision.
This term is the one missing from these 5 stages of design thinking:
Empathize
Define
Ideate
Test
This is a Japanese term for continuous improvement, adopted by the Toyota Production System.
Kaizen
This was the funny (but incorrect) answer Jason gave for one of the types of psychological safety.
Exile Safety ;)