Agile Foundations
This is the Agile Pillar that outlines the most important priority: people.
What is Individuals and interactions over processes and tools?
The English translation of this Japanese word means “signboard.”
What is Kanban?
This team ceremony takes place every day.
What is the Daily Stand Up.
This software enables Agents to submit new life insurance applications to the company.
What is LHLIC eApp?
This tool in Excel lets you remove duplicate values from a list.
What is Remove Duplicates?
In 2001, several software industry leaders gathered and published this document describing a now famous approach to software development.
What is the Agile Manifesto?
A constraint that limits the number of cards that can be in a given workflow status at one time.
What is Work in Progress (WIP) Limit?
A way of thinking that focuses on collaboration, flexibility, and continuous improvement.
What is the Agile Mindset?
Agents use this site to access information about their leads, commissions, and contest requirements.
What is the Agent Portal?
This is issued at the end of an audit engagement.
What is an audit report?
A software delivery team is known as this if they have a high degree of autonomy and are responsible for the management of their own work.
What are Self Organizing teams?
A column of the Kanban board being overloaded with tasks above the Work In Progress limits can lead to this.
What is blocked or stuck work?
This is the primary measure of progress for an Agile team.
What is Working Software?
Our homegrown system that stores much of our information to run the business.
What is LIMS (aka IMBi, AS400, iSeries)?
A cloud based platform by Amazon used to host applications, provide storage, and much more.
What is AWS?
This agile principle describes project visibility and establishes trust among all project participants.
What is Transparency?
This concept is considered the starting point, or first step, in Kanban.
What is Visualizing the Workflow?
Retrospectives are an agile practice that fulfills this agile principle.
What is Inspect?
An application that uses complex mapping to navigate business rules and regulations for the correspondence we send policyholders.
What is Eloquence?
A software used as a way to electronically sign documents and agreements.
What is DocuSign?
The steps to a continuous flow of value.
What is a Value Stream?
This is the Japanese term for continuous improvement.
What is Kaizen?
Waterfall projects have fixed requirements and usually negotiate Cost and Schedule. Agile projects negotiate this.
What is Scope?
This application provides an updated method for other applications to request policy data.
What is POMS?
Internal audit is the _____ line of defence.
What is the 3rd line?