To Agile or not to Agile
Created during a group ski-trip in 2001 by 17 software practitioners, the result can be summarized by 12 principles that include welcoming change, delivering frequently, and satisfying the customer
What is the agile software development manifesto?
It is an agile software management model based on multiple small teams working in an intensive and interdependent manner
What is the Scrum Process?
In agile software development, the 'Team Coach' who manages the agile process and removes impediments to progress is called this
What is the scrum master?
A general-purpose graphical modeling language that supports the analysis, specification, design, verification, and validation of complex systems
What is SysML?
This diagram shows system components, their contents (properties, behaviors, constraints), interfaces, and relationships
What is a block definition diagram?
This 1960s aircraft was born with the hope of being able to launch off an Aircraft Carrier for the Navy and be a fast-attack supersonic fighter-bomber for the USAF, in the end only the Air Force won.
What is the F-111 Aardvark?
Officially launched by Dean Leffingwell in 2012, this synchronizes multiple Agile teams in a configurable framework that scales for larger hierarchical organizations to improve responsiveness and time to delivery
What is the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE)?
This is a short, time-boxed period during which a ccrum team works to complete a set amount of work
What is a sprint?
This person manages requirements, tradeoffs, collaboration between acquisition and user communities, defines user stories, and manages/prioritizes the backlog
Who is the product owner?
A general-purpose mechanism for organizing model elements and diagrams into groups
What is a package?
This diagram is a dynamic view of the system that expresses sequences of behaviors and event occurrences over time
What is an activity diagram?
This Naval Warship was the first of its kind to be designed from its origin utilizing Digital Engineering.
What is the Virginia-Class Submarine?
This is a particular business need assigned to the software development team, broken down into small enough components that they may be delivered in single development iterations.
What is a user story?
This is comprised of a scrum master, product owner and team members, to complete a deliverable in (generally) 1-2 weeks
What is a sprint team?
This high-performing agile team of about 5-11 individuals (not too big, not too small) to define, build, test, and deliver increments of value in a time-boxed period of time
What is a cross-functional team?
This SysML element is used to define a necessary attribute, capability, characteristic, or quality of a system needed for it to have value and utility.
What is a SysML Requirement?
Activity, sequence, state machine, and use case diagrams are all types of these
What are behavior diagrams?
After centuries of only having paper to guild us, this navigation technology became available to the globe in 1993.
What is GPS or Global Positioning System?
This long-lived 'team of teams' is defined as a team of 5-12 Agile teams at the program layer that is the primary organizational, operational, and value delivery construct for SAFe
What is the Agile Release Train (ART)?
Communication between these two groups is necessary to ensure the product aligns with the project's requirements and vision
What are the stakeholders and team members?
This person is part of the developer team who creates architectures and designs in an iterative manner
Who is the architect?
This French based software tool is one of the primary means to generate Model-Based Systems Engineering using SysML.
What is CATIA Magic?
This category of diagrams includes block definition and internal block diagrams
What are structure diagrams?
This aircraft has the distinction of being the first 5th Generation Fighter, as well as the first to be designed extensively using Computer Aided Design.
What is the F-22 Raptor?
This is the process of restructuring existing computer code without changing its external behavior to improve nonfunctional attributes for increased readability, reusability, and extensibility
What is code refactoring?
This is a list of work that needs to be done in order according to priority
What is a product backlog?
This person is an active participant in the daily scrums, who writes and tests code for the current iteration or sprint
Who is the (software) developer?
This was the leading MBSE language before SysML came on the scene in 2001.
What is the Unified Modeling Language or UML?
This diagram is owned by a particular block and shows its encapsulated structural contents: parts, properties, connectors, ports, and interfaces
What is an internal block diagram?
This difficult to see aircraft is expected to replace two drastically different designs of the same type of mission, combining the designation numbers of both.
What is the B-21 Raider?