Agile
It's a set of values and principles. It's about delivering working products of high-quality and business value iteratively.
What is Agile?
Name the three pillars of Scrum
What are Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation?
This team member immigrated from the Philippines.
Who is Marilyn?
This tracks the total work remaining and projects the likelihood of achieving the sprint goal
What is a burndown chart?
This team member graduated from Stony Brook University.
Who is Mike?
Individual & Interactions over Processes & Tools
Working Product over Comprehensive Documentation
Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation
Responding to Change over Following a Plan
What is the Agile Manifesto?
The Scrum Values are Courage, Focus, ____________, Respect and Openness.
What is Commitment?
Page Configuration Format
What does "PCF" stand for?
It's a measure of the amount of work a team has completed in a sprint. It provides an idea of progress and capacity, and can be used by Product Owners to help with planning and forecasting.
What is Velocity?
This team member left Chicago for Dallas.
Who is Rasool?
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 acceptable standards.
What is "TDD" or "test-driven development"?
Name the four (4) official ceremonies in Scrum
What are (1) sprint planning, (2) daily stand ups, (3) sprint review and demo, (4) and sprint retrospective?
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Who is Carlyn?
This measure tracks overall quality and is the connection between customer satisfaction and the team.
What is Escaped Defect Rate?
This team member owned a Chinese restaurant.
Who is Kerry?
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?
It's a group of interacting, interdependent parts that form a complex whole.
What is a system?
This is the Gosu best practice for handling hardcoded strings, such as labels.
What is "use DisplayKeys"?
This metric is a way to measure predictability, how well do we keep our commitments.
What is Planned-to-Done Ratio?
This team member is a former W.O.S. Padawan and a self-taught programmer.
Who is Jesus?
This means having the responsibility and authority to act and accepting the natural and logical consequences for the results of those actions or inactions. The team as a whole and each team member individually must be held to it. It is not a function only of the team's leader, but a shared responsibility.
What is accountability?
It's the ability, or the developed skill, to perform problem solving in complex systems. In other words, it can be a skill or an awareness, or both! You can develop your ability to think in systems.
What is "systems thinking"?
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What is Product Designer or In the Product Model?
This is a way to measure team productivity. The shorter the time, the more things are getting done in a given timebox.
What is Cycle Time?
These two team members know martial arts.
Who are Jinky and Furqan