Intro to Agile
When the team reflects on what is going well and what can go better. Focuses on improvement.
What are Retrospectives?
The smallest unit of work that a team can pull to start working on.
What is a story?
These 10 guidelines focus our work at Application Services.
What are the Delivery Principles?
This methodology focuses on continuous flow and uses a PULL system instead of a push.
What is Kanban?
What is a space?
Created to describe the agile values. Those on the left are more valuable than those on the right.
What is the Agile Manifesto?
The "so that" part of the story.
As a "who"
I want to "what"
so that _______.
What is why?
The practice of two people working on a story, sharing ideas and sharing hardware.
What is pairing?
This approach to software delivery uses time boxes called sprints or iterations.
What is Scrum?
All of the Three Ways (Core Principles of DevOps).
What are Flow (Systems Thinking) and Experimentation and Feedback?
The practice where a failing test is written first, before the code is written to make it pass.
What is TDD or Test Driven Development?
These are the I and S in INVEST.
What is Independent and Small?
The process of making "cleaner" code, deleting unnecessary logic, making the code more readable and maintainable without changing its functionality.
What is refactoring?
The meeting to decide what stories are still relevant and to flesh out the details of particular stories. The meeting that takes the stories from the wide end of the funnel to the skinny end.
What is Backlog Refinement?
In the Shawn Achor video, these are the five ways to change your lens.
What are:
3 Gratitudes
Journaling
Exercise
Meditation
Random Acts of Kindness
Explicit constraints on your work board to help manage flow.
What is WIP (Work In Process) limit?
These are the N and T in INVEST.
What is Negotiable and Testable?
Observations of the behavior of others that all Humans are expected to give and receive regularly to help improve themselves.
What is feedback?
It may be good to update this as your team changes. Keep it visible in your area, and use it to remind teammates what you have all agreed to.
What is the team working agreement?
The rate at which stories move through our system.
What is Throughput, Delivery Rate or Velocity?
The best ideas and design come from these teams.
What are self-organized or autonomous teams?
The conditions that must be satisfied to consider a story done.
What are acceptance criteria?
This word is sometimes called putting empathy into action.
What is compassion?
The first and last name of the person credited with creating Kanban.
Who is Taiichi Ohno?
These are the 4 Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence.
What are Self Awareness, Self Management, Social Awareness, and Relationship Management?