GEICO Facts
1936
What year was GEICO officially founded?
In 1999, this female trio did not want any Scrubs.
Who are TLC?
According to SAFe, this person is responsible for defining stories and prioritizing the team's backlog.
Who is the Product Owner?
This is the name of the skyscraper in Die Hard.
What is Nakatomi Plaza?
Excel files end with this extension.
What is .xls?
One GEICO Plaza, Washington, D.C. 20076
What is the address of GEICO headquarters?
A 90's dance craze stemming from a hit by Los Del Mar.
What is the Macarena?
The person is a servant leader who enables teams to self-organize, self-manage, and deliver via effective Lean-Agile practices.
Who is the ADL (or Scrum Master)?
Walter White's profession at the beginning of Breaking Bad.
What is a high school science teacher?
Released in April 2015, this quickly became the best-selling wearable device.
What is the Apple Watch?
Martin, the primary mascot of GEICO
Who is the GEICO Gecko?
Founded by Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic, the band went through a succession of drummers, most notably Chad Channing, before recruiting Dave Grohl in 1990.
Who is Nirvana?
This person is a servant leader and coach for the Solution Train, facilitating and guiding the work of all ARTs and Suppliers in the Value Stream.
Who is the Solution Train Engineer (STE)?
The youngest son of Vito Corleone, a Sicilian immigrant who builds a Mafia empire.
Who is Michael Corleone?
An American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers.
Who is Grace Hopper?
Massachusetts, in 2009
In 1997, this late rapper had "Mo Money, Mo Problems"
Who is Notorious B.I.G.?
A philosophy and practice that involves building and executing tests before implementing the code or a component of a system.
What is Test Driven Development?
She's from St Olaf, Minnesota.
Who is Rose Nylund?
An organized collection of structured information, or data, typically stored electronically in a computer system.
What is a Database?
Originally a linen manufacturer, it was bought in 1965 by an investment group called the Buffett Partnership, headed by investor Warren Buffett.
What is Berkshire Hathaway?
This all girl group’s debut album was called ‘The Writing’s on the Wall’, and was released in 1999. One member went on to be a bit more popular than the others.
Who is Destiny's Child?
These are the sequence of activities needed to convert a business hypothesis into a digitally-enabled Solution. Examples include designing a medical device or geophysical satellite, or developing and deploying a software application, SaaS system, or an e-commerce web site.
What are Development Value Streams?
Threat Level Midnight.
What is the name of Michael Scott's Movie in The Office?
This is a table tennis–themed twitch arcade sports video game, featuring simple two-dimensional graphics, manufactured by Atari and originally released in 1972.
What is Pong?