Kanban
Teams
The Cloud
Delivery
Potpourri
100
The meeting that is a status update from the team members to each other and leadership.
What is "The Daily Stand-up"?
100
At Salesforce more than 80% of these are either 2 weeks long or semi-monthly.
What are "Sprints"?
100
The first current team member to get AWS certified.
Who is Anil?
100
It is the most common estimation unit in Scrum
What are "Story Points"?
100
It's what AWS stands for.
What is "Amazon Web Services"?
200
All stories must go into this column first to start metric calculations.
What is "Mapping/Analysis-Doing"?
200
The standard Scrum role who is primarily concerned with the operation, effectiveness, and health of the team.
Who is the "ScrumMaster"?
200
The first service on the AWS platform.
What is "SQS"?
200
A method for relatively sizing User Stories that lines up stories in order of Effort and Complexity as they compare to each other.
What is "Affinity Estimation"?
200
From Latin for "Look Back"
What is a "Retrospective"?
300
It's the key to pulling a story from a "Done" column into a "Doing" column.
What is "Bandwidth"?
300
A meeting teams hold monthly or at the end of every Sprint. It shows off the work the team has done to other teams, stakeholders and customer proxies.
What is the "Sprint Retrospective"?
300
Azure and Google Cloud
Who are AWS's main competitors?
300
When we calculate the average number of story points a team accomplishes during an sprint, and use that number to plan our future sprints and releases, we're using this metric.
What is "Velocity"
300
A really big user story.
What is an Epic?
400
A team has questions about their (single-line) stories' requirements, but their Product Owner is constantly jetting off to talk to customers and is never around to provide clarification.
What is the "M.I.A. P.O."
400
Happy Hours
What is what the team needs more of?
400
Retrospectives and a culture of continuous improvement allow teams to do this, both for their own benefit and for that of the entire org.
What is "Create Knowledge"?
400
5 of the values on the cards in a standard Planning Poker Card set.
What are (any 5 of) "0, 1/2, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 100, infinity, Coffee Break and ?"?
400
The three 'C's of user stories.
What are Card, Conversation, and Confirmation?
500
The team's functional managers swoop in to the daily standup once or twice a sprint to check on work status or provide new work for the team (that wasn't pulled in during Sprint Planning).
What is being "Sea-gulled" or the "Interrupting Chickens"?
500
The best kind of meme.
What is a Potluck meme?
500
The three ADM principles that have not been mentioned in this category so far.
What are "Optimize the Whole", "Deliver Fast" and "Respect People"?
500
The unit of measurement that teams should avoid correlating User Story estimates to.
What is "Time"?
500
The world's most agile animal (according to a Google search). Also had a small role in the animated film "Madagascar".
What is a Fossa?
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