Scrum Basics
Scrum Masters
Product Owners
Delivery Model
Pittsburgh
Potpourri
100
These three roles make up a Scrum Team.
What is Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Developers?
100
In situations of conflict, the Scrum Master may use this type of leadership to foster cooperation and support.
What is Servant Leadership?
100
This artifact, maintained by the Product Owner, lists all the desired work for a product ordered by priority.
What is the Product Backlog?
100
This is the name of the Medicaid Consolidated Platform that enables all Lines of Business.
What is MedTechTM?
100
How many Super Bowls has the NFL team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, won?
What is 6? or
What is 6 more than the Cleveland Browns?
100
Translate this from Pittsburgh-ese:
"I'm going dahntahn' to grab a wedgie, a pop, n'at before the Stillers game. Jeet jet?"
What is:
"I'm going to downtown Pittsburgh to grab a pizza sandwich and a soda before heading to the Steelers game. Did you eat yet?"
200
This artifact shows all work that the Scrum team has selected to produce over the next Sprint.
What is the Sprint Backlog?
200
The Scrum Master clears obstacles to help the Scrum team achieve this by the end of each Sprint.
What is the Sprint Goal?
200
This tool or method allows Product Owners to visualize and manage the progress of each product feature, often in a prioritized sequence.
What is a Product Roadmap?
200
This MedTech program event serves to align the business and technical teams on priority and scope; coordinate dependencies across teams; and, identify potential risk.
What is PI Planning?
200
This famous movie directed by George A. Romero, was set in and filmed around Pittsburgh.
What is "Night of the Living Dead"?
200
This board game, originally called "The Landlords game", was created to illustrate the effects of land ownership and overbearing corporations.
What is Monopoly?
300
At the end of a sprint the team demonstrates the product at this event.
What is the Sprint Review?
300
To help the team stay aligned and achieve better results, Scrum Masters may create and maintain this, a set of behaviors the team commits to uphold.
What is a Working Agreement?
300
The Product Owner leverages this principle of Empiricism to ensure visibility of backlog items for stakeholders and the Scrum team.
What is Transparency?
300
These two leaders are responsible for Program Governance and Delivery Oversight for MedTech.
Who are Logan Bosiljevac and Bryan Schaeffer?
300
Pittsburgh is known for being the birthplace of this famous hamburger.
What is the Big Mac?
300
Known as the "father of modern computing" this mathematician and logician laid the foundation for computer science.
Who is Alan Turing?
400
The event that Scrum teams use to Inspect and Adapt at the end of every development cycle, the last event of a Sprint.
What is a Retrospective?
400
A Japanese term meaning "change for the better," is a powerful philosophy and methodology that aims to promote continuous improvement in all aspects of life, work, and business
What is Kaizen?
400
This tool helps Product Owners define and communicate the desired outcomes of a product feature or user story.
What is Acceptance Criteria?
400
This team is responsible for creating and supporting custom applications, such as the Business Application Portal.
What is Software Engineering or Application Development?
400
This term of endearment is used to refer to someone who speaks using Pittsburgh specific terms and accent.
What is a Yinzer?
400
This superhero is referenced in every episode of Seinfeld.
Who is Superman?
500
Empiricism is the core principle of Scrum, made up of these three pillars.
What are Transparency, Inspection, and Adaptation?
500
What type of maturity model helps Scrum Masters assess and guide the team's growth across multiple stages, from forming to performing.
What is the Tuckman Model?
500
Product Owners often use this prioritization technique to rank items based on urgency, value, and effort needed.
What is the MoSCoW method? (Must, Should, Could, Won't)
500
In the START Process, a Product Owner indicates they are done reviewing a Solution by setting this field to "Complete."
What is the "Solutions Reviewed" field?
500
This is the most famous neighborhood in Pittsburgh.
What is Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.
500
Often called "Brushies" by locals, these nocturnal marsupials are are native to Australia and invasive to New Zealand.
What are Brushtail Possums?
600
Takeuchi and Nonaka's Harvard Business Review article compares high-performing product development teams to rugby teams using the Scrum formation in this year.
What is 1986?
600
The first full implementation of Scrum occurred in 1993 when Jeff Sutherland, John Scumniotales and Jeff McKenna implemented Scrum at this business.
What is the Easel Corporation?
600
In regulated industries, a PO may reluctantly prioritize features based on this principle, which reflects urgency of recent audit findings over the product rodmap.
What is Compliance-Driven Development (CDD)?
600
This is Brian Castle's new title as of January 1, 2025.
What is
The Ultimate Grand Master of All Things Medicaid Delivery: Conqueror of Claims, Provider of Portals, and Protector of PolicyTM?
600
Pittsburgh is known as the “City of Bridges” because it has approximately this many bridges.
What is 446?
600
Kelly Mediate drank many of these, her favorite coffee order from Rock'n Joe, while going above and beyond to create this experience for all of us.
What is a Black Americano?