BA Potpourri
Tell me a Bedtime User Story
I'm in an Agile State of Mind
Pods & Squads
This & That
100

A group or individual with a relationship to the change, the need, or the solution.

What is a Stakeholder?

100

A very small user story might be assigned a value of "1" for this.

What is a Story Point?

100

Agile is an incremental and iterative approach to software development, whereas this approach is linear and sequential.

What is Waterfall?

100

In the new Operating Model, project funding will be less CapEx focused, and more this-focused.

What is OpEx?

100

In this movie, 007 first uttered the iconic phrase: "Bond ... James Bond".

What is "Dr. No"?

200

The ability to track the relationships between sets of requirements and designs from the original stakeholder needs to the actual implemented solution.

What is Traceability?

200

This is a set of predefined requirements that must be met to mark a user story complete.

What is acceptance criteria?

200

This person helps to facilitate agile ceremonies, is committed to agile values and practices, while remaining flexible and open to opportunities for the team to improve their workflow.

What is a Scrum master?

200

This type of team is end-to-end accountable, autonomous, empowered and transparent.

What is a squad?

200

This was the most popular social media platform in 2021.

What is Facebook?

300

This technique assesses the value, urgency, and risks associated with particular requirements to ensure that analysis and/or delivery work is done on the most important ones at any given time.

What is Prioritization?

300

A piece of value that is larger than a story but smaller than the whole product.

What is an Epic?

300

Kanban methodologies are continuous and more fluid, whereas this is based on short, structured work sprints.

What is Scrum?

300

This person may be temporarily assigned to a Pod to aide in transformation, ensuring consistent application of Agile.

What is an Agile Coach?

300

The acronym “smh” stands for this.

What is "shaking my head"?

400

A Business Analysis technique to elicit ideas and opinions about a specific product, service, or opportunity in an interactive group environment.

What is a Focus Group?

400

Good user stories must be: Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimate able, Small, and this.

What is Testable?

400

This type of chart shows the amount of work that has been completed in an epic or sprint, and the total work remaining.

What is a burndown chart?

400

The "CEO" for each Pod has this title.

What is a Product Lead?

400

This was the name of the blonde girl in the cartoon show "Scooby-Doo".

Who is Daphne?

500

This type of diagram was created by Kaoru Ishikawa.

What is a fishbone diagram?

500

In 2001, this person first proposed a "Three C's" formula for user story creation: the Card, the Conversation, and the Confirmation.

Who is Ron Jeffries?

500

This is a set of organizational and workflow patterns for implementing agile practices at an enterprise scale.

What is Scaled Agile Framework(R) or SAFe(R)?

500

Outcomes that a Pod achieves are also known as this.

What are OKRs?

500

The "K" in vitamin K stands for the Danish spelling of this eleven-letter word.

What is Coagulation?

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