Agile
This Agile value statement encourages collaboration between people OVER finding the "best" procedure or thing to use.
What is "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools"?
One of the many points in a day that a scrum team discusses their progress towards the sprint goals, identify impediments, and promote quick decision-making.
What is the Daily Standup? "...often meet throughout the day for more detailed discussions about adapting or re-planning the rest of the Sprint’s work." - the Scrum Guide
This part of the working agreement was evident in the past sprint.
What is:
offering help to your teammates
communicating in the open
anything else (there were lots~)
Things that worked well
What are things that were great?
This cat is named after and is the same colour as a type of cheese.
Who is Cheddar?
This Agile Principle is evident when team members have autonomy to brainstorm, solution, and create, and aren't being managed by someone else.
What is Agile Principle 11? "The best architectures, requirements and designs emerge from self-organizing teams"
This Scrum value is important especially when a team member comes across a problem and needs help.
What is courage? "The Scrum Team members have the courage to do the right thing, to work on tough problems." - Scrum Guide
A way to gain trust, build working relationships, and communicate more effectively with team members.
What is working together (aka pair programming)?
Things that didn't work well
What are things we thought could have been better?
A structure built as an exterior area for cats.
What is a Catio?
Our Product Owner likes to remind the team of this Agile Principle.
What is #10: Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
This Scrum pillar is reflected in this example: Tagging someone directly in the team channel rather than sending them a direct message.
What is Transparency? "The emergent process and work must be visible to those performing the work as well as those receiving the work." - Scrum Guide
This team principle encompasses both mental and physical states.
What is staying healthy?
Wins to celebrate
What is team awesomeness?
She loves her adventure hikes.
Who is Willow?
People identified from the business area who should work together daily with the team.
Who is the SME or key stakeholders?
Once "ready" cards have been pulled in during sprint planning for the next sprint, this person must be consulted/has the authority to adjust the scope of work.
Who is the Product Owner? "Scope may be clarified and renegotiated with the Product Owner as more is learned." - Scrum Guide
This can help avoid the "bus factor".
What is open communication, collaboration and transparency?
Something you hope to do MORE or LESS of next sprint
What's something ...
This creature used to be seen walking behind someone's desk but since moving camera angles we have not seen much of them.
Who is Fin?
The principle is all about looking back.
What is Principle 12, "at regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behaviour accordingly. ?
These individuals are accountable for: Adapting their plan each day toward the Sprint Goal; Holding each other accountable as professionals.
Who are developers (including ux): "Developers are the people in the Scrum Team that are committed to creating any aspect of a usable Increment each Sprint." - Scrum Guide
The value that reflects treating everyone the same no matter what org they're from.
One of our sprint goals.
What are one of the following:
1. Complete load testing
2. More QA & squashing bugs
3. Setup Training and incident management runbook
4. Short-term roadmapping
This team member once took care of a cat that ate part of a broom.
Who is Kristen?