This team sets up and monitors POLITICO's Global Town Hall events.
What is Help Desk?
All Technology teams use this internal tool to converse and collaborate on projects.
What is Slack?
This is the number of teams under the Technology Operations group.
What is four? (Help Desk, Networking, Systems, Cybersecurity)
This is the term for errors, flaws, or faults in the design or operation of software.
What are bugs?
These two words are the E&E part of E&E News.
What are energy and environment?
This team is responsible for the daily management of development teams.
What is Project Management?
This tool is used by Product and Technology to organize and schedule tickets of work.
What is Jira?
This is the typical duration of a sprint.
What is two weeks?
This is the term for a series of regular agile-style meetings to facilitate team communication, collaboration, and progress.
What are ceremonies? OR What are Agile ceremonies?
These are frequent meetings the team holds to check on daily progress of work and flag blockers.
What is scrum?
This team ensures the network at POLITICO is reliable, secure, and scalable at all US offices.
What is Networking?
The Sales team uses this social collaboration tool to discuss client requests for site features.
What is Chatter?
This is the approximate number of full time US-based employees in the Technology department.
What is 60?
This is the term for the guidelines used to determine when a coded feature is shippable.
What is acceptance criteria?
Code that is fully tested and verified is deployed to this environment.
What is Production?
This team secures all employee accounts and data, and keeps track of phishing attempts.
What is Cybersecurity?
This tool is a third-party vendor that POLITICO uses to send email newsletters and alerts.
What is ExactTarget?
This is the approximate number of development and QA contractors in the Technology department.
What is 50?
This is the part of the website that the user interacts with.
What is the user interface?
We use these for information that already exists, rather than building it ourselves.
What are third-party vendors?
This team ensures end users have a seamless experience by testing all new features and functionality.
What is Quality Assurance?
Name one of two internal tools the Technology department uses to store project, process, or system documentation.
What is Confluence? OR What is Box?
This is the number of European-based full time employees in the Technology department.
What is 16?
This is the term for when a developer needs to review and validate another developer's work.
What is a Pull Request? OR What is a PR?
This ceremony is held after each sprint to reflect on what went well and what didn’t.
What is a retrospective?