Agile 101
Agile teams use these short, time-boxed periods to complete work and inspect progress.
What are Sprints?
Scrum Teams commit to this Sprint artifact, which describes why the Sprint is valuable.
What is the Sprint Goal?
Agile means no planning is required.
What is a myth?
This team member has a puppy named Peter Pan
Who is Manas?
One of the two pillars of the Toyota Production System, this concept means "automation with a human touch."
What is Jidoka?
This ordered list contains features, enhancements, bug fixes, and other work items for the product.
What is the Product Backlog?
According to Scrum, these are the five values that support the framework: Commitment, Courage, Focus, Openness, and this one.
What is Respect?
Agile teams create enough documentation to support collaboration, compliance, and future maintenance.
What is true or fact?
This team member recently shared they have an obsession with chair designs and obsesses over their designs, analyzes how it's made, if it's comfortable, etc.
Who is Dani (Daniela)?
Toyota's slogan "Let's Go Places" was introduced primarily in this country.
What is the United States?
Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, Lean
What are Agile frameworks?
Scrum is built on three pillars: Transparency, Inspection, and this third pillar
What is Adaptation?
Agile guarantees projects will be completed faster.
What is a Myth?
This team member is/was taking tennis lessons.
Who is Leidy?
This Toyota vehicle has been America's best-selling sedan multiple times.
What is the Camry?
This Agile principle states that teams should regularly reflect on how to become more effective and then adjust accordingly.
What is Continuous Improvement (or inspect and adapt)?
This principle states that the best solutions emerge from organized, empowered teams.
What are self-organizing or self-managing teams?
Agile welcomes changing requirements, even late in development.
What is true?
This team member lives in Mexico City
Who is Axel?
Toyota's famous Land Cruiser was originally developed to support the needs of this type of organization.
What is the military?
One of the four Agile values emphasizes this over contract negotiation.
What is customer collaboration?
This Scrum artifact is the sum of all completed Product Backlog Items during a Sprint and previous Sprints.
What is the Increment?
Agile is a process.
What is a Myth? (Agile is a mindset and set of values/principles; processes and frameworks support it.)
This team member was learning to play soccer with his son earlier this year.
Who is Vikram?
If a Toyota team keeps asking "Why?" five times, they are probably not being annoying. They are doing this.
What is root cause analysis?