Scrum Principles
These allow the Delivery Team to receive constant feedback and forces inspection and adaption.
What are Regular Deliveries?
In George Orwell's Animal Farm, this type of animal is the character Boxer.
What is a horse?
In 2001 several software industry leaders gathered at Snowbird ski resort and published this document describing a now famous approach to software development.
What is the Agile Manifesto?
This Avengers team member once created a hip hop album
Who is Rory Trankler?
Texas Hold'em is a close cousin of this estimation tool.
What is planning poker?
This principle describes project visibility and establishes trust among all project participants.
What is Transparency?
This author known as the creator of Science Fiction.
Who is Mary Shelley?
This is the primary measure of progress for an Agile development team.
What is Working Software?
Kyle has had two of these as pets.
What are ferrets?
The format is as follows: As a, I want to, So that.
What is a User Story
A delivery team is known as this if they have a high degree of autonomy and are responsible for the management of their own work.
What is Self Organizing?
This author shares a birthday with their world famous wizarding main character they created.
The ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes.
What is Continuous Improvement?
Which Avenger member said they are most like Phoebe on Friends?
At the beginning of a project the Product Owner(PM here) is responsible for defining this. The Delivery Team should refer back to this often for reinforcement.
What is the Product Vision?
A delivery team is known as this if they are comprised of team members who have all the skills necessary to complete their work.
What is Cross-functional?
This first book from Tolkien is about a very small adventurer which was eventually made into animated and live action feature films.
What is The Hobbit?
The 2002 Standish Group study reported on 20% of features are used "often" or "always." This is a key reason why Agile projects focus on this.
What is Business Value?
A collection of features(epics) to implement the vision prioritized by business value.
What is the Product Backlog?
Retrospectives is a scrum practice that fulfills these Scrum Pillars.
What is Inspect & Adapt?
Despite writing about the military in practically all of their books, which were eventually made into feature films and popular video games, this author never served.
Who is Tom Clancy?
Waterfall projects have fixed requirements and usually negotiate Cost and Schedule. Agile projects negotiate this.
What is Scope.
The number of story points that the team can complete in a given sprint.
What is Velocity?