Agile
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
What is Agile Principle number 10?
Sprint Planning One is attended by the Product Owner and Teams or Team representatives. They together tentatively select the items that each team will work on that Sprint. The Teams identify opportunities to work together and final questions are clarified.
What is Sprint Planning in LeSS?
AAA was founded on March 4, 1902 in this city.
What is Chicago, IL?
Always the fourth Thursday in November.
What is Thanksgiving Day?
The capital of Kentucky
What is Frankfort?
A developer writes a single test case describing a new function, runs the test wherein it should fail, then writes "just enough" code to make the test pass, and then refactors the new code to meet the acceptable standards.
What is TDD, or Test-Driven Development?
See, understand, and optimize the whole system (not its parts), and explore system dynamics. Avoid the local and sub-optimizations of focusing on the ‘efficiency’ or ‘productivity’ of individuals and individual teams. Customers care about the overall concept-to-cash cycle time and flow, not individual steps.
What is Systems Thinking?
Between 1942 and 1945, this Club helped the World War II effort by providing specialized signs and maps to the military.
What is Automobile Club of Southern California?
American test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to do this in 1947
What is "break the sound barrier"?
The first horse racing was in Lexington in 1789, but this is the longest running horse race in the United States, beginning in 1875.
What is the Kentucky Derby?
"It" is the average of story points done from the last 3 sprints. As a scrum tool, it provides an idea of progress and capacity, and can be used by Product Owners to help with planning and forecasting.
What is Velocity?
It can be viewed as a scaling framework for product development, but can also be viewed as a descaling framework for organizations. It attempts to remove organizational complexity by solving problems in product development in a different and simpler (but not necessarily easier) way.
What is LeSS?
Automobile Club of Southern California began what pilot program in December 1976
What is Approved Auto Repair?
This is the Hindu festival of lights, usually lasting five days and celebrated during the Hindu Lunisolar month Kartika.
What is Diwali?
This a tour of many Kentucky Bourbon manufacturers, including Four Roses, Jim Beam, Makers Mark, Heaven Hill, Wild Turkey, Evan Williams, Town Branch and Woodford Reserve. It's a 3 day, 80+ mile journey of pure bourbon pleasure.
What is the Kentucky Bourbon Trail
This acts as a mirror showing the team how good they are at making a product. It also exposes problems in the team and organization. Without it, it’s hard to steer or adapt. With it, adaptive control and improvement is possible.
What is Transparency?
People - especially managers - are expected to "go see with their own eyes" rather than sit behind desks or believe that the truth can be learned only from reports or numbers. It's related to appreciating the importance of gemba - going to the physical front-line place of value work where the hands-on value workers are.
What is "Go See"?
In 1915, this club sent out its "First Aid Corps" on motorcycles, as the first emergency road service offered in the US
What is "Auto Club of St. Louis"?
In narrative form, it usually features animals that behave and speak as human beings, told in order to highlight human follies and weaknesses. A moral - or lesson for behavior - is woven into the story and often explicitly formulated at the end.
What is a fable?
An offshoot of early country music, it's descended from the traditional ballads brought to America by Irish, Scottish and English settlers, and traditional African American blues and jazz.
What is bluegrass music?
What is "accountability"?
It's this person's role to improve the product development system by practicing "Go See", and encouraging "Stop & Fix" and "experiments over conformance".
Who is the [line] manager?
I Am I.S. I Communicate. Better Together. Empower All. Trusted Partner. Results Matter.
What am I?
What are the "ACE Cultural Beliefs"?
This small country in southeastern Africa is known as "the warm heart of Africa." It is landlocked, but one fifth of the country is made up of water.
What is Malawi?
It's known as the "Niagara of the South".
What is Cumberland Falls?