TDSA
NEW Mindset
NEW Roles
NEW 101
Work Hierarchy
100

An event that occurs once at the end of every quarter, during which Product Groups determine how they will deliver the approved Features in the upcoming quarter, features are refined into epics and stories. 

What is PI planning?

100

Seek and act on feedback

What is "Continuously learn"

100

A strategic asset that strengthens TD's risk-taking capability, enabling delivery excellence and early value realization while keeping the bank safe. 

What is Risk Marketplace?

100

Dedicated business teams who meet the end to end needs of the customers driven by a mission to deliver market leading experiences.

What is a Journey? 

100

Define work to be delivered within a Journey or Platform to realize the business goals of the Product Family level. Work can span up to 1 year to be delivered.

What is a Feature?

200

Past quarter OKR and Feature progress are reviewed with SET member and OKR and Features to be delivered in the upcoming quarter are agreed upon.

What is Quarterly Business Review

200

Prioritize the goals of the organization over the objectives of individuals or business units

What is "Act as One team"?

200

Develop and execute formal test approaches to support the delivery of quality solutions and applications

What is a Quality Engineer?

200

Groupings of people, funding and technology which enable a specific business, enterprise or IT capability

What is a Platform? 

200

Work is informed by enterprise priorities and distribution strategy and span across 1-3 years.

What is a "Theme"?

300

This event occurs prior to launch, the event is used to validate the feature/epic/story work as expected and meet a set of pre-defined acceptance criteria and definition of done.

What is Release/Solution Readiness Go/No Go?

300

Leaders align with clarity and vision.  Teams own how to get it done.

What is "Align and Empower"?

300

They are primarily accountable for successfully implementing and championing Agile practices in an assigned Platform or Journey and play a critical role in helping TD roll-out Agile@Scale.

What is an Agile Coach?

300

Talent constructs which provide standards, training and professional development to employees within platforms and journeys.

What is a Practice? 

300

Work delivers value and generally fit within a PI and last less than 3 months.

What is an Epic? 

400

An event that provides an opportunity to demonstrate Feature(s) being developed and receive feedback from the stakeholders about the effectiveness and usability of the Feature(s) under development. 

What is Release/Solution Demo?
400

Create clarity for teams.  Adapt as the environment changes

What is "Lead with ambiguity"?

400

They are responsible  for the overall plan for the Journey or Platform and make sure that the plan has the resources, capabilities and capacity to execute.  

What is a Solution Train Engineer?

400

Process, methods, governance and ways of working to launch and sustain NEW.

What is an Enabler? 

400

Small unit of value or deliverables which takes up to 2 weeks (1 sprint) to complete

What is a Story? 

500

This event refine planned / proposed Features and gain commitments from all partners.

What is Pre-QBR J/P Feature Alignment? 

500

Start by doing, iterate to innovate with purpose for our customers and TD.  Take smart action today, value progress over perfection.

What is "A Bias to Action"?

500

This role designs, describes, and manages solution engineering as it relates to capabilities of assigned Journeys and Platforms through the end-to-end lifecycle.  That means, they know the front end, back end, database and debugging of applications or sites

What is a Full Stack Architect? 

500

Name 4 enablers

What is TDSA, QBR, OKR and JIRA/Confluence site

500

Goal cascade from the SET and could span from 3-5 years

What is an Enterprise Objective?