Change and Culture
Fill in the blank with one word: "Agile is a ____"
What is a mindset?
A product that has been minimally developed but meets baseline requirements of the user. Can be used to gather feedback and iterate.
What is a minimum viable product (MVP)?
An ongoing, never-ending effort to enhance products and services based on user feedback and team retros.
What is continuous improvement?
The most popular two Agile frameworks (also used in BITS)
What are Scrum and Kanban?
Name at least two Jira issue types used by BITS
What are Features, Epics, Stories, Tasks, Sub-Tasks?
A team that has the autonomy to choose how to accomplish their work rather than being directed by others outside of the team
What is a self-organizing team?
A way to gather requirements that helps us take on the perspective of the customer. "Given (scenario), when (user action), then (expected functionality)."
What is a user story?
Japanese term for "continuous improvement," adopted by the Toyota Production System
What is "kaizen?"
Scrum ceremony used to check in on sprint progress and raise impediments
What is the Daily Standup?
Ashley's "out of comfort zone" activity, described in the BITS All Hands meeting at the CDOT building
What is camping?
#1 thing leaders can do in order to empower teams
What is create and communicate a guiding vision?
Term used to describe visual touchpoints that allow users to interact with a product (buttons, typography, colors etc)
What is the user interface (UI).
Agile principle described as "the art of maximizing the work not done"
What is Simplicity?
Scrum ceremony used to commit to work for the next iterative delivery timebox
What is Sprint Planning?
Misgana dressed as these two characters on separate Halloween occasions (150 points each)
Who are Gru and Morpheus?
A concept that allows us to create environments of trust, free of judgement/punishment
What is psychological safety?
This three-letter abbreviation describes your customer's feedback about experiences/expectations around your services (can include surveys, focus groups etc)
What is the VoC (voice of the customer)?
Agile principle that encourages interactions between people to be more human with each other and does not necessarily need to be "in-person"
Scrum ceremony used to show product completed during the sprint and gather user feedback on the product
What is the Sprint Demo?
This form of social media expression is Ashley's favorite thing to use in our BITS Agile Hangout chat
What are memes?
A model used to show what individuals/orgs typically experience while going through change or upheaval (includes "valley of despair)
What is the change curve? (developed by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)
Name some human-centered design methods that help us understand how our customers interact with our services.
What are journey maps, empathy maps, user personas?
One of the biggest enemies of a sustainable working pace and ability to enter a "flow" state
What is context-switching?
Project management methodology that emphasizes a linear and sequential approach to delivery rather than iterative delivery
What is Waterfall?
These two competing audio products were discussed heavily in our Agile Hangout chat (250 points for each)