Agile 101
Agile Framework that has a time-boxed iterative process where teams agree to Sprint Goals and commit to a Sprint Backlog
Scrum Framework
In a traditional Agile Team, this resource is responsible for understanding the business needs and communicating them to the team.
Product Owner
List of new features, changes to existing features, bug fixes, or other activities that a team may deliver in order to achieve a specific outcome.
Product Backlog
What did you do yesterday? What will you do today? Are there any impediments in your way?
Daily Scrum Call
This music artist started her career with this hit song "Ocean Eyes"
Billie Eilish
A famous document that outlines the 4 values and 12 principles of the Agile method.
The Agile Manifesto
Coach, leader, and facilitator that works for the team to improve productivity, remove obstacles, and resolve impediments.
Scrum Master
Estimation technique/game where each team member "plays" a card bearing a numerical value corresponding to a point estimation for a user story.
Planning Poker
An opportunity for an Agile Team to reflect on What went well, what didn't go well, and ways to improve.
Which Kardashian/Jenner sister is the youngest?
Kylie Jenner
Agile Framework that is Continuous, not iterative, and is better suited for unplanned work.
Kanban framework
Turns the requirements and creative designs into working software.
Developers
The subset of product backlog that a team targets to deliver during a Sprint in order to accomplish the Spring goal and make progress toward a desired outcome.
Sprint Backlog
Meetings typically facilitated by a BA and/or Product Owner to decompose and review user stories in the Product backlog for future Sprint assignment.
Backlog Grooming Sessions
How many Harry Potter movies are there?
A numerical value that represents the total amount of work done in a Sprint iteration. Usually represented in Story Points.
Velocity
Elicits and documents requirements and helps the team create user stories for the product backlog.
Business Analysts or Product Owner Proxies
Common estimation technique that is used to estimate Epics and large Features before user stories are decomposed into detailed work items? (hint: think clothing)
T-shirt Sizing
A recurring Event used in SAFe Agile where Agile Teams come together to Plan out work and discuss dependencies for multiple future iterations.
Program Increment (PI) Planning Event
What is the longest-running TV series (hint: cartoon)?
The Simpsons
A type of exploratory Story or Task that is undertaken in order to gain deeper knowledge and reduce risks, or to understand the requirement in greater detail. It could involve further research and exploration, as well as design and prototyping.
Spike
Resources that have stake in the outcome of the project. Are sometimes considered experts that bring valuable knowledge about the product and business needs.
Stakeholders or Subject Matter Experts
Popular Story Point estimation method that uses a series of numbers where each number is the addition of the last two numbers
Fibonacci Series
Rather then a traditional "Sprint Planning" ceremony that is scheduled in a fixed time (eg. 2 weeks, 3 weeks), this type of planning meeting may be used in a Scrumban process. (hint: this meeting is triggered by the status of the work itself)
Trigger Planning
How many albums did The Beetles have?
13