Sprint to the Finish
This short, time-boxed period — usually 1 to 4 weeks — is when Agile teams complete specific sets of work items.
What is a sprint?
When you knock down all 10 pins on your first ball, you’ve rolled this.
What is a strike?
This open-source programming language, popular in data science, is known for its readability and for libraries like pandas and NumPy.
What is Python?
This is the most common type of allegation in medical malpractice claims, often arising when a diagnosis is delayed, missed, or incorrect.
What is diagnostic error?
This is the sound a cat makes when it is happy or content.
What is purring?
This Agile role is responsible for defining the product vision, prioritizing the backlog, and ensuring the team delivers value to the customer.
Who is the Product Owner?
This term describes when pins remain standing after your first roll, but you knock them all down with your second.
What is a spare?
In data science, this term refers to a graphical representation that shows how two variables are related — often with dots on an X-Y axis.
What is a scatter plot?
This factor, often revealed in root cause analysis, refers to lapses in communication among providers or between providers and patients.
What is communication failure?
This breed is known as the world’s fastest dog, often used in racing.
What is the Greyhound?
In Jira, each piece of work that represents a feature, bug, or task is called this.
What is a story (or issue/card)?
The maximum possible score in a game of bowling.
What is 300?
This term refers to a visual summary of data, often in the form of charts, graphs, or dashboards, to help people understand insights quickly.
What is data visualization?
In claims analysis, this process involves identifying the underlying causes of an adverse event rather than just the immediate errors.
What is root cause analysis (RCA)?
Dogs belong to the same family as wolves, foxes, and coyotes. This is their biological family name
What is Canidae?
During this Agile ceremony, the team reflects on the previous sprint to identify improvements for the next one.
What is the sprint retrospective?
If your coworker bowled a perfect game, how many consecutive strikes would she have thrown?
What is 12?
In statistics and data science, this metric measures how far data points are spread out from the mean.
What is standard deviation?
In a medical malpractice claim, the plaintiff must prove that a provider’s actions failed to meet this legally recognized level of competence and skill expected of a reasonably prudent clinician.
What is the standard of care?
Cats are crepuscular animals, meaning they are most active during these times of day.
What are dawn and dusk?
In Agile, this metric represents the rate at which a team completes work during a sprint and is often used for forecasting future work capacity.
What is velocity?
This tricky leave happens when the headpin and one or more pins behind it are separated by a gap, making it hard to hit both sides.
What is a split?
This buzzword refers to using large volumes of data and computing power to make predictions or automate decisions — the foundation of many modern AI systems.
What is machine learning?
Even if a provider breaches the standard of care, a claim cannot succeed unless this legal element links the breach directly to the patient’s injury.
What is causation?
This is the common term for when a dog digs repeatedly in the ground, often seen as instinctual behavior inherited from their wild ancestors.
What is digging?