A lightweight development framework that is heavily influenced by lean principles. A visible, work-in-progress limiting pull system.
What is Kanban?
100
Four key values and twelve principles that guide an iterative and people-centric approach to software development.
What is the Agile Manifesto?
100
Owner of the Team Backlog and single voice to the Team on what, when and why backlog items are required.
Who is the Product Owner?
100
Kanban discourages working on numerous tasks at the same time, which is commonly referred to as, this term.
What is a Multi-Tasking?
100
This is the year that the Agile Manifesto was created.
What is 2001?
200
The act of accepting to take on more work based on the available capacity to do so.
What is the act of Pulling work?
200
An agile principle that emphasizes the most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team.
What is face-to-face communication?
200
Servant Leader and scrum expert to the Team who is responsible for ensuring Sprint based events are successful.
Who is the ScrumMaster?
200
A Kanban board uses this mechanism to promote focus and teamwork, and ensures teams can finish what they have started.
What is a WIP Limit?
200
How many original signors were on the Agile Manifesto?
What is 17?
300
A lean principle that focuses on Global Optimizations across the entire value stream, rather than Local Optimizations, to increase the overall speed of end-to-end delivery, quality and moral.
What is Optimizing the Whole?
300
The primary measure of progress for an Agile development team.
What is working software?
300
The Scrum methodology derived its concepts and name from this sport.
What is rugby?
300
This manufacturing company is often credited as an initial implementer of Kanban, having evolved from its "Just In Time" approach.
Who is Toyota?
300
A simple voting mechanism that allows participants to quickly vote if they want to Continue, Stop or Doesn't Matter.
What is a Roman Vote?
400
A lean principle that emphasizes the removal of any act or function that doesn't add value, such as unnecessary code, unnecessary hand-offs, ineffective communication, partially done work, task switching, etc.
What is Eliminate Waste?
400
A statement of value that advocates making quick, pragmatic decisions based on the most up-to-date information available.
What is Responding to Change over Following a Plan?
400
These are the three main artifacts from the Scrum Development Process.
What is a Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and Burndown Chart?
400
One of the unique concepts of Kanban is for team members to decide when they will work on a story. This action is called...
What is pulling?
400
This is an estimate of how fast a team can complete stories, based on the average number of points completed from previous sprints.
What is Velocity?
500
A Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement of working practices, personal efficiencies, etc.
What is kaizen?
500
Asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is known at the time. Three pillars consist of: Transparency, Inspection and Adaption.
What is Empirical Process Control Theory?
500
Self-organizing, self-managing. They are responsible for delivering the highest value backlog items within a sprint/iteration.
Who is the Scrum Team?
500
The term Kanban comes from Japanese, what is its english translation?
Signboard
500
This is the terminology used when getting clients ideas down into a smaller, working piece of software, that can be delivered earlier.