KTSAgile Jeopardy 2023

KTSA Culture

100

What does KTSA stand for?

KPMG Technology Services Americas

200

How do we call KTSA employees?

KTSAExplorers

300

Can you name the five KTSA values?

Courage, Excellence, For Better, Integrity, & Together

400

Which System do you need to use to set and approve Objectives @ KTSA?

OpenPD

500

What does GBS stand for?

Global Business Services

Agile Values

100

How many values does the Agile manifesto have?

Four

200

Individuals and Interactions over

Processes and Tools

300

Working Software over

Comprehensive documentation

400

Customer Collaboration over

• Contract Negotiation

500

Responding to Change over

Following a Plan

Agile Principles

100

How many principles does the Agile Manifesto have?

Twelve

200

The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from

Self-Organizing Teams

300

This is the primary measure of progress

Working Software (or deliverable)

400

What do Businesspeople and Developers must do?

Work together daily.

500

Name at least four Agile Principles

• Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
• Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.
• Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale
• Businesspeople and developers must work together daily throughout the project
• Working software is the primary measure of progress.
• Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
• Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need and trust them to get the job done.
• The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
• Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
• Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.
• The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams
• At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.

Agile Month

100

Who coordinated all the Agile Month Activities?

Miguel Narvaez

200

Which companies were the two external conferences from the Agile Month?

PepsiCo & CitiBanamex

300

Which US areas participated with us in the Agile Month

Advisory US & Nexus US

400

Which was the last Agile Month conference, which coincides with a scrum ceremony.

Retrospective

500

Describe the KTSAgile Logo

Four interlocking puzzle pieces using the four KTSA colors (pink, light blue, dark blue, purple) with the name KTS letter in bold, Agile letters to be filled. Using the KTSAgile motto Living the Mindset Evolution

Agile Frameworks

100

Name at least three frameworks that embrace the Agile Manifesto

KanBan, SCRUM, XP Programming, Lean Programming, SAFe

200

Name at least two ceremonies from SCRUM

Daily, Planning, Refinement, Retrospective

300

Name two, typically found, roles in an Agile team

Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developer

400

Name two, typically, found “swim-lanes” in KanBan

Backlog, To Do, Doing, Done

500

Which framework is being adopted by the KPMG Agile CoE?

• SAFe – Scaled Agile Framework