TFS Tib-Bits
What's it Gonna Take?
Put a Rush On It!
Teamwork
Potpourri
100
The field that contains the critical details required to validate success.
What is "Acceptance Criteria"?
100
The number of story points that should be used for the estimate, if a team thinks it will take 5 ideal days to complete the work.
What is "5"?
100
The ideal number of stories a person should work on at one time.
What is “One”?
100
The three basic questions each team member should answer during the Daily Stand-up meeting.
What are 1) “What I worked on yesterday”, 2) “What I am going to work on today”, and 3) “What impediments or roadblocks I may have”?
100
The act of managing the Epics and top level corporate projects.
What is "Portfolio Management"?
200
The field that should be set to zero when a task is completed.
What is the “Remaining Hours” field?
200
This sizing method is abbreviated as “WSJF.”
What is “Weighted Shortest Job First”?
200
The number of #1 priority items In a stack-ranked backlog.
What is “One”?
200
The name of the practice where the entire team gets together to solve a problem.
What is "Swarming"?
200
A gathering of team members who meet regularly to provide team status, eliminate cross-team impediments, and work through team dependencies.
What is the “Scrum of Scrums” meeting
300
The state a parent PBI moves to when the first task of a story is moved to “In Progress”.
What is “In Progress”?
300
Uses Fibonacci numbers to help teams come to an agreement on estimates.
What is “Planning Poker”?
300
Stories should be planned in these kinds of “lanes” so that they are completed throughout the sprint rather than all at the end.
What are “Swim Lanes”?
300
Dean Leffingwell describes this as the “energy that drives a self-organizing team”.
What is “Ba”?
300
This tool helps Product Delivery determine the satisfaction levels and trending of their stakeholders, and helps track growth in customer satisfaction.
What is the "WCS NPS Survey"?
400
The TFS burndown chart displays this field over time.
What is “Remaining Hours”?
400
The size at which you should stop trying to break down a larger story?
What is “8 SP’s”?
400
The Agile term for any set period of time that is set aside for an event, meeting, or process
What is a "Time box"?
400
Patrick Leoncioni describes five of these, in his book of the same name.
What are the “Dysfunctions of a Team”? (Book = The Five Dysfunctions of a Team)
400
This is the meeting where teams “Commit’ to the work they will do.
What is the “Sprint Planning Meeting”?
500
The iteration path level that Features are normally set to.
What is “the PSI level”?
500
The value that has the greatest impact on the calculated estimate in WSJF estimating.
What is “Job size”?
500
The action a team should take when an unplanned high-priority item is requested to be worked in the middle of a sprint.
What is “Identification and communication of Impacted items to stakeholders”
500
The definition of the team acronym DBT.
What is “Define, Build, and Test”?
500
The method which teams gain insight into their strengths and weaknesses, to highlight areas of needed retrospection.
What is the “Team Health Survey”?
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