Before FAST
Meeting, But Make It Agile
Who Does What Around Here?
Agile in the Wild
100

This was missing, causing confusion about what to work on first.

What is prioritization?

100

This daily meeting helps teams frequently discuss progress and blockers.

What is the Daily Huddle?

100

This role is responsible for maximizing product value and managing the backlog.

What is a Product Owner?

100

Sharing progress across teams helps reduce this common Agile problem: teams working in isolated groups.

What are silos?

200

We had over 200 of these in progress at once

What are Claims BI TFS cards?

200

This ceremony is where the team reflects on how to improve next Value Cycle.

What is Inspect and Adapt?

200

This person helps the team follow Agile practices and remove impediments.

What is an Agile Delivery Owner?

200

Claims BI uses this tool to increase transparency by making team priorities and progress visible in one place.

What is Azure DevOps?

300

This metric averaged over 50 days.

What is Cycle Time?

300

This event is used to decide what work will be taken into the upcoming Value Cycle.

What is Prioritization Roundtable?

300

An autonomous, empowered, self-organized, self-managed group of people gathered around a common purpose capable of product discovery and delivery of business goals.

What is the Collective?

300

Instead of dividing work by technical layers, this approach groups it into small features that can be designed, built, tested, and delivered.

What is vertical slicing?

400

Before FAST, deciding what to work on next often depended on this instead of strategy.

Who is the loudest customer? Who is reaching out frequently?

400

This ceremony often supports transparency by showing completed work to stakeholders.

What is Demo and Review?

400

A Cross-functional team responsible for executing and delivering work.

What is a Delivery team?

400

This strategy helps teams manage work visually using columns such as “To Do,” “In Progress,” and “Done.”

What is Kanban?