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100

This investigative team member took an 8 month sabbatical last year to travel the world

Who is Kailee Douglas from the WATER team?

100

This product is a registry for well drillers and well pump installers in B.C. 

What is GWELLS (Groundwater wells and aquifers)?

100

What is the acronym for a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications which also specifies how software components should interact. 

What is an API ( Application Program Interface)?

100

This backbone of the modern DevOps environment bridges the gap between development and operations teams by automating the building, testing, and deployment of applications.

What is Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery?

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What is Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment?

What is CI/CD?

100

One of the 12 Principles of Agile states _____ is said to be the primary measure of success

What is WORKING SOFTWARE

200

This person can be guaranteed to name that tune, and is never without a smoothie and cheezies for lunch.

Who is Al Ring? (also acceptable, Alasdair Ring)

200

This product will replace an existing system known for managing troublesome animals and plants

What is "InvasivesBC"?

200

Now known as Team Falcon, these two teams used to go by these acronyms prior to merging with each other.

What is EPIC and NRPTI

200

This NRS application (as it's commonly known today), was the first one to be hosted on OpenShift.

What is EPIC? (EAO Project Information Centre)

200

This is 4 word phrase that was coined by psychologist Bruce Tuckman, is the path a team follows on it's way to becoming a high performing team.

What is Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing?


300

This developer's real name is Christopher but he is better known by this name.

Who is Max?

300

This product team experiments with ways to improve the way Agile teams perform maintenance and enhancement of IITD's numerous applications

What is TEAM ZERO?

300

ICE is an acronym for this type of vehicle

What is "Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle

300

You may mistake this to carry crude oil, but in the tech world it's known to carry code through different environments.

What is a pipeline?

300

According to the Agile Manifesto, ____ and ____ are valued over processes and tools

What are INDIVIDUALS and INTERACTIONS?

400

In an alternate life, this person would like to be a stunt car driver

Who is Matt Hall?

400

This product's vision is born from the Mt. Polley mine disaster.

What is BCMI  (or BC Mines Information)?

400

This INDEXING system addresses the likelihood of a fire starting, how big it could get and how difficult it will be to control

 What is Fire Weather Index (FWI)?

400

For implementing blazing fast searching, some of our teams are currently use this stretchy sounding search engine.

What is Elasticsearch?

400

This lightweight agile framework is used for scaling scrum to more than one team.

What is Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)?

500

This DDS staff member is also a certified yoga instructor

Who is Gary Wong?

500

This product allows auto makers to report the make and models of their environmentally friendly vehicles.

Who is Zero Emissions Vehicle Application (ZEVA)?

500

This 3 letter acronym relates to the FLOW of water available to support aquatic life

What is EFN (Environmental Flow Needs)?

500

This open source web analytics software, formerly known as Piwik, provides detailed reports on your website and its visitors, including searches and keywords they use, pages they like and files they download

What is MATOMO?

500

This agile framework has no-predefined roles and responsibilities and is all about visualizing your work, limiting work in progress, and maximizing efficiency/flow.

What is Kanban?