Guess Who
This is the job title for someone who assigns work to the developers, measures how fast developers are coding, and helps improve the development team's productivity in an agile development shop.
Who is a scrum master?
This is the term for the software development methodology that was widely used before agile development was introduced in 2001. Hint is in the category.
What is waterfall.
This is what product managers write. It describes how something should and should not work. This is usually part of a child's bedtime routine.
What is a story.
Lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars are all incapable of this, while every other cat can.
What is purring?
This job title is extremely popular across many industries including software development, but does NOT exist in agile software development. They are sometimes referred to as a traffic cop or a coordinator.
Who is a project manager.
Agile development methodology embraces that the only consistent thing is this.
What is change?
This is the concept of creating the smallest possible thing that still delivers value to the user. Often used to prove an idea out before spending more time or resources on it. Also the abbreviation for the best person on a sports team.
What is the MVP?
This substance contains the chemical nepetalactone that, when smelled by a cat, produces an effect similar to LSD or marijuana for the cat. Its effects wear off within 15 minutes, and won’t surface again for a few hours, even if your cat remains in sniffing distance.
What is catnip?
This person is not part of the development team, has no authority over the development team, but works incredibly closely with the development team. They work as a translator, taking what customers want and translating it into a prioritized list of "wants" that the developers work from.
Who is a Product Manager?
This is a unit of time in which the developers attempt to finish all of the items they committed to completing within the unit of time. Usain Bolt does these.
What is a sprint?
This is the prioritized list of "wants" that the development team works from.
What is the backlog?
Adult cats only do this to humans, not to other cats.
What is meowing?
This person oversees the code written by developers, makes sure best practices are followed, and suggests optimal ways of solving coding challenges.
Who is a development manager?
This is the concept that the further in the future something is, the less you know about it and the less confident you can be about it. You also see this when viewing hurricane predicted paths.
What is the cone of uncertainty?
This document describes what features will be released in what order, laid out on a calendar. Think Mapquest.
What is a roadmap?
While dogs have approximately 10 different vocalizations, cats have up to this many.
What is 100?
This is the term for an important person from whom input and feedback should be solicited. Not a vegetarian.
What is a Stakeholder?
These three things make up the "Iron triangle" or the "unattainable triangle" because you only get to pick two and must accept the third.
What are speed, quality and cost.
This is a famous mathematical sequence named after an Italian mathematician but dating as far back as 450 B.C. It is used as a scale for measuring how much effort something will take to develop. The first 10 numbers in the sequence are: 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55.
What is the Fibonacci sequence?
The name of Josh's black cat, and Buster's brother from another mother, he often shows up on zoom calls when Josh is working from home.
Who is Winston?