Agile
Within a ‘Story’, what is the item used by Product Owners to define what—if met are a complete solution to the PO’s requirements?
“Acceptance Criteria”
Which team within TMNA is responsible for the development & launch forecast of accessories?
SPAD (Service Parts & Accys Development)
What is the name for the agile artifact that depicts the key characteristics, needs, goals, and behaviors of a specific user?
Used to reinforce customer-centric product design, dev teams often create artifacts known as Personas that provide details about users’ preferences, priorities, and expectations
This Japanese word is used to describe the monthly ordering process
Getsudo
According to HBR, McKinsey, and Bain & Co, what approach to program management provides a statistically significant faster time-to-value (TTV) for products: agile or waterfall?
Agile.
In contrast to agile, this approach to program management is often criticized for its rigidity and late-stage integration.
Waterfall (or traditional) program management
Which of the following reasons from the ‘Gartner Global Software Buyer Survey’ was the leading cause cited for why different software was chosen to replace software
1)It didn’t work well with our other software systems
2)It was too buggy or prone to failure
3)We found a better alternative solution
4)It failed to provide advertised benefits
5)It cost too much
“It didn’t work well with our other systems” over 37% of supply chain software buyers cited this reason in their purchase decision!
Setting aside safety considerations, which stakeholder matters most at TMNA?
the customer!
Accessible to TMNA users enterprise-wide, this website is the sox-approved place to request access for query-able data from TMNA-owned sources, such as Toyota Big Data Platform (TBDP)?
Known by what phrase, this approach to digitization involves mirroring existing functionality using different technology or platforms
Lift-and-shift
This is the Scrum term used to describe when a task cannot be completed and the development is unable to proceed.
“Impediment”
Meaning ‘model’ in when translated from Japanese to English, which globally-standardized field is used by the rest of Toyota in lieu of US Model code?
Katashiki code
What are the names of the two protagonist mascots depicting the end state capabilities of SCaFT’s digital transformation?
Known by the acronym UETA, this table has a list of events associated with a vehicle’s ordering, build, accessorization, and movement
the Unified Estimated Time of Arrival Table
What is the approved method for retrieving data from VehicleHub or GPS?
(IDK ask the Enterprise Architects?)
Which one of the following organizations prefer traditional project management to Agile:
[1] Walmart
[2] Boeing
[3] Microsoft
[4] Procter & Gamble
[5] GE
Boeing!
In contrast to the continuous integration preferred by Agile approaches, this approach to integration testing describes the preferred approach under waterfall-based implementations
“Big Bang” Integration. In contrast Agile’s approach of continuously integrating, testing, and deploying code in smaller increments, waterfall is often characterized by “integration hell” where all of the parts are tested near program-end prior to deploying to prod. Example: Boeing 737 Max MCAS system
To ensure that products are useful to SCaFT’s customers, this form of testing should be performed regularly.
User-Acceptance Testing
Toyota’s US customers a provided near-real time visibility of their vehicle’s telematics-derived location through the Toyota app at no additional cost for this length of time
1 year
Widely utilized to provide the mathematically-best feasible solution(s) to resolve complex problems, optimization functions must be provided a complete list of this form of limitation.
Constraints