The Daily Scrum feels like it is a status update from the team members to the ScrumMaster.
What is "The Daily Status"?
100
At Salesforce more than 80% of these are either 2 weeks long or semi-monthly.
What are "Sprints"?
100
Minimizing dependencies on other teams and keeping their options open till the 'last responsible moment' allows a team to make these.
What are "Just-in-time Decisions"?
100
It is the most common estimation unit in Scrum
What are "Story Points"?
100
It's what the "D" stands for in ADM.
What is "Delivery"?
200
All stories are handed over to QE "Dev Complete" a day before the iteration is scheduled to finish.
What is "Scrummerfall"?
200
The standard Scrum role who is primarily concerned with the operation, effectiveness, and health of the team.
Who is the "ScrumMaster"?
200
Increasing speed and effectiveness at delivering customer value through the reduction of these seven categories of drag in software development: "defects, overproduction, transportation, waiting, inventory, motion, and processing".
What is "Eliminate Waste"?
200
A method for relatively sizing User Stories that lines up stories in order of Effort and Complexity as they compare to each other.
What is "Affinity Estimation"?
200
From Latin for "Look Back"
What is a "Retrospective"?
300
An organization implements Scrum, but they decide to ditch Sprint reviews. Or a team adopts scrum, but doesn't hold Retrospectives.
What is "Scrumbut"?
300
A meeting teams hold monthly or at the end of every Sprint. It shows off the work the team has done to other teams, stakeholders and customer proxies.
What is the "Sprint Retrospective"?
300
A team and org's Definition of Done ensures that this is built into every user story before it gets released to our customers.
What is "Quality" (as in "Build Quality In")
300
When we calculate the average number of story points a team accomplishes during an sprint, and use that number to plan our future sprints and releases, we're using this metric.
What is "Velocity"
300
A really big user story.
What is an Epic?
400
A team has questions about their (single-line) stories' requirements, but their Product Owner is constantly jetting off to talk to customers and is never around to provide clarification.
What is the "M.I.A. P.O."
400
DAILY DOUBLE
A daily meeting where the team typically answers the three questions "What did I do yesterday, what am I working on today, and what is blocking me, if anything."
400
Retrospectives and a culture of continuous improvement allow teams to do this, both for their own benefit and for that of the entire org.
What is "Create Knowledge"?
400
5 of the values on the cards in a standard Planning Poker Card set.
What are (any 5 of) "0, 1/2, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 100, infinity, Coffee Break and ?"?
400
The three 'C's of user stories.
What are Card, Conversation, and Confirmation?
500
The team's functional managers swoop in to the daily standup once or twice a sprint to check on work status or provide new work for the team (that wasn't pulled in during Sprint Planning).
What is being "Sea-gulled" or the "Interrupting Chickens"?
500
The ADM mascot's name.
What is Spike?
500
The three ADM principles that have not been mentioned in this category so far.
What are "Optimize the Whole", "Deliver Fast" and "Respect People"?
500
The unit of measurement that teams should avoid correlating User Story estimates to.
What is "Time"?
500
The world's most agile animal (according to a Google search). Also had a small role in the animated film "Madagascar".