Intro to Agile
Story Writing
Teams and Leadership
Agile Practices
Grab Bag
100

When the team reflects on what is going well and what can go better. Focuses on improvement.

What are Retrospectives?

100

The smallest unit of work that a team can pull to start working on.

What is a story?

100

The intersection of these three attributes create the Ideal Team Player. 

What is Humble, Hungry, Smart?

100

It may be good to update this as your team changes. Keep it visible in your area, and use it to remind teammates what you have all agreed to.

What is the team working agreement?

100

The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a team.

What is a conversation?

200

Created to describe the agile values. Those on the left are more valuable than those on the right.

What is the Agile Manifesto?

200

The "so that" part of the story.

As a "who"

I want to "what"

so that _______.

What is why?

200

The first building block of Emotional Intelligence.

What is self-awareness?

200

This approach to software delivery uses time boxes called sprints or iterations.

What is Scrum?

200

The most important of the Agile Values.

What is Individuals and Interactions?

300

The best ideas and design come from these teams.

What are self-organizing or autonomous teams?

300

These are the I and S in INVEST.

What is Independent and Small?

300

The ability to name discrete emotions with more specificity.

What is emotional literacy?

300

This methodology focuses on continuous flow and uses a PULL system instead of a push.

What is Kanban?

300

A product of the interaction of its parts, not just the sum of its parts. 

What is a system?

400

Explicit constraints on your work board to help manage flow.

What is WIP (Work In Process) limit?

400

These are the N and T in INVEST.

What is Negotiable and Testable?

400

In order to push decision-making authority downward, David Marquet trained his direct reports to use this phrase.

What is "I intend to...?"

400

The standup practice that demonstrates managing the flow of work.

What is "Walking the Board?"

400

Building the right thing is the focus of this role. 

What is a Product Owner?

500

The art of maximizing the amount of work not done.

What is simplicity?

500

The conditions that must be satisfied to consider a story done.

What are acceptance criteria? (Or Confirmation)

500

This leadership style sees leadership as an opportunity to serve others.

What is servant leadership? (Or leadership 3.0)

500

This development approach applies increasing fidelity to an MVP.

What is iterative?

500

Kaizen is the Japanese philosophy that focuses on this.

What is continuous improvement?