Change team
This acronym EPIC embodies the mission of CST’s change team
What is Empowering People, Igniting Change?
This billionaire industrialist turned philanthropist founded our company a 100 years ago
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This is the first of John Kotter’s 8 steps for leading change
What is A sense of urgency?
This outside industry research group helps validate the momentum from project to product
Who is Gartner?
The standard Scrum role who is primarily concerned with the operation, effectiveness, and health of the team.
Who is the "ScrumMaster"?
This EPIC member designed our logo
Who is Mallek Kanan?
This TIAA tagline reminds us of both our past and future
What is Created to Serve, Built to Perform?
This penguin first noticed danger on the iceberg because he was curious
Who is Fred?
One of the social ways the IT Product Model has been communicated broadly with the support of EPIC
What is Shop Talks?
*** other answers might be acceptance if correct
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 Demo"?
The three scrum teams currently making up EPIC
What are Seekers, Team Ignite and Changineers?
The number of consecutive years TIAA has been awarded Lipper Fund Award for Best Overall Large Fund Company
What is 6?
This experiment helped motivate penguin colony that they were in danger
what is The glass bottle breaking with frozen water?
This middle maturity model step means that the 5 accountabilities are in place or known… even if they are not yet managed or optimized
What is Defined?
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"
The platform EPIC uses for information exchange
What is Confluence?
We recently passed this major milestone amount in Assets under management
What is $1 Trillion Dollars?
These 3 change levers are the backbone of the book Switch
what are the Rider, Elephant and the Path?
or long form Direct the Rider, Motivate the Elephant and Shape the Path
These five accountabilities make up the IT Product Model
What are Business Value Delivery/Portfolio Health, Technology Portfolio/Roadmap, Production Stability, TCO/Total Cost of Ownership, Governance?
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 ?"?
This vision guides EPIC
What is CST thrives and evolves beyond any market condition as innovators?
These six core values of TIAA guide our behaviors
What are Put the Customer First, Act with Integrity, Deliver Excellence, Take Personal Accountability, Operate as One Team, Value our People (in any order)) ?
An illustration of a top submarine commander and Darrell Fernandes did this symbolic empowering intent based leadership
What is Taped their mouths shut?
These four key stakeholder groups (
What are IT Product Leaders, Business Stakeholders, Front Line Teams, IT Leadership?
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"?