Agile
Scrum
Team or Gosu?
Metrics
Team Trivia
100

It's a set of values and principles.  It's about delivery working products of high-quality and business value iteratively.

What is Agile? 

100

Name the three pillars of Scrum.

What is transparency, inspection, and adaptation?

100

This should be added to the end of all new properties.

What is "_Ext"?

100

This tracks the total work remaining and projects the likelihood of achieving the sprint goal.

What is a burndown chart?

100

He played competitive badminton.

Who is David?

200

Individual & Interactions over Processes & Tools 

Working Product over Comprehensive Documentation 

Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation 

Responding to Change over Following a Plan 

What is the Agile Manifesto?

200

The Scrum Values are Courage, Focus, Respect, Openness and this.

What is Commitment?

200

He came from Pstar.

Who is Samir?

200

It's a measure of the amount of work a team has completed in a sprint.  It provides an idea of progress and capacity, and can be used by Product Owners to help with planning and forecasting.

What is Velocity?

200

He has 2 fat cats, 1 Husky puppy, and 5 children.

Who is KB?

300

A developer writes a single test case describing a new function, runs the test wherein it should fail, then writes "just enough" code to make the test pass, and then refactors the new code to meet acceptable standards.

What is "TDD" or "Test-Driven Development"?

300

Name the four (4) official ceremonies in Scrum.

What are (1) sprint planning, (2) daily stand ups, (3) sprint review and demo, (4) and sprint retrospective?

300

This is the Gosu best practice for handling hardcoded strings, such as labels.

What is "use DisplayKeys"?

300

This measure tracks overall quality and is the connection between customer satisfaction and the team.

What is Escaped Defect Rate?

300

I was born into and married into a family of farmers and sometimes I help with harvesting crops.

Who is Archana? 

400

This acts as a mirror showing the team how good they are at making a product.  It also exposes problems in the team and organization.  Without it, it's hard to steer or adapt.  With it, adaptive control and improvement is possible.

What is transparency?

400

It's a group of interacting, interdependent parts that form a complex whole.

What is a system?

400

He hopes to marry his girlfriend (and her toddler "Renly").

Who is Brian? 

400

This metric is a way to measure predictability, how well do we keep our commitments.

What is Planned-to-Done Ratio?

400

She has 3 dogs:  "Bear", "Mowgli", and "Baloo".

Who is Jinky?

500

This means having the responsibility and authority to act and accepting the natural and logical consequences for the results of those actions or inactions.  The team as a whole and each team member individually must be held to it.  It is not a function only of the team's leader, but a shared responsibility.

What is accountability?

500

It's the ability, or the developed skill, to perform problem solving in complex systems.  In other words, it can be a skill or an awareness, or both!  You can develop your ability to think in systems.

What is "systems thinking"?

500

You can set the availability of a product, such as auto or home lines, or endorsements here.

What is Product Designer or In the Product Model? 

500

This is a way to measure team productivity.  The shorter the time, the more things are getting done in a given timebox.  

What is Cycle Time?

500

He loves to go skiing at Whistler Blackcomb Mountains in Canada.

Who is Aaron?