Estes Acronyms
Name that
Science Guy
Comp Sci 101
What's in my
Computer?
Agile
100

What does LTL stand for

What is Less-Than-Truckload

100

Best know for his theory about the law of gravity, however his “Principia Mathematica” (1686) with its three laws of motion greatly influenced the Enlightenment in Europe.

Who is Issac Newton

100

A programable electronic devise that can store, retrieve, and process data.

What is a computer

100

The two patterns that make up the binary system.

What is 0 and 1

100

This quick paced, cyclical event can lasts anywhere from 1-4 weeks.

What is a Sprint?

200

What does BOL stand for

What is "Bill of Lading"

200

Fictional elementary school teacher that takes her class on field trips to unusual times and locations, such as the Cretaceous Period, outer space, and inside a human body.

Who is Ms. Frizzle

200

The very first type of computer.

What is a calculator

200

The language that computers read to carry out instructions.

What is Binary

200

Name an event where the scum event is timeboxed to 15 minutes. 

What is the Daily Scrum?

300

Estes IT motto is "We keep TRUCKS Moving". What does "TRUCKS" stand for?

Transparency
Responsiveness & Resiliency
Understanding
Continuous Improvement
Knowledge Sharing
Simplicity

300

Titular and main character of a Nickelodeons 2000s animated show, centered around boy genius. As explained in the theme song, he is described being “a kid with a knack for inventions.” 

Who is Jimmy Neutron

300

The most widespread of all Operating Systems.

What is Microsoft Windows

300

This is what CPU stands for

What is Central Processing Unit

300

The format is as follows: As a I want to so that

What is a User Story?

400

What does EDI stand for?

What is Electronic Data Interchange

400

Known for co-creator and hosting the educational YouTube channels Crash Course and SciShow. He has also advocated for and organized social activism, created and hosted a number of other YouTube channels and podcasts, released music albums, and amassed a large following on TikTok.

Who is Hank Green

400

The number of generations that computers have gone through.

What is Five

400

Main high speed memory that holds data and instructions.

What is RAM

400

An event Scrum teams use to Inspect and Adapt at the end of every development cycle.

What is a Retrospective?

500

What does OS&D stand for?

What is overages, shortages & damages

500

Agile methodology is based on the concept of Empiricism which emphasizes that experience, evidence and sensory perception, assist in the formation of ideas and argues that the only knowledge humans can have is based on experience. Name one of the three founders of British Empiricism.  

Who is John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume. 

500

The observation that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years

What is Moore's Law

500

The amount of memory that your computer can store away.

What is Storage Capacity

500

Waterfall breaks down software development into isolated phases that flow into each other, while Agile advocates ____ development cycles in which multiple lifecycle phases can run in parallel.

What is iterative

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