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200

The Brilliant at the Basics Assessment has this may practices to go through as a team

What are 14?

200

The sprint before the "real" sprint

What is Iteration 0?

200

TDD

What is Test Drive Development?

200

Leader of the End To End Client Experience subdomain

Who is Roger Kenna?

200

Prior to moving a story from the backlog into the sprint, the team should make sure it is properly refined and follows this "defined" rule

What is the Definition of Ready?

400

The five scoring levels of Brilliant at the Basics include Initiating, Practicing, Transforming, Brilliant and this.

What is Scaled?

400

The SMS domain has now changed to this

What is End to End Client Experience (E2E-CE)?

400

This acronym helps prioritize what is a must have, should have, could have and won't have.

What is MoSCoW?

400

CIO supported the mail transition from SmartCloud Notes to the ____ environment.

What is Global Domino?

400

The conditions that a feature must meet to be accepted by a user,

What is Acceptance Criteria?

600

Both the Health Assessment and Brilliant at the Basics should be conducted as a team at this frequency.

What is Quarterly?

600

Ideally, a scrum meeting should be time-boxed for how long?

What is 15 minutes?

600

This is what INVEST stands for.

What is Independent, Negotiable, Valuable (or Vertical), Estimable, Small, Testable

600

CIO recently migrated to a new marketing platform focusing on simplification, integration, and client focus

What is Marketo?

600

A technique used to relatively estimate the level of effort

What is Story Sizing (or Story Points)?

800

Each voter within a Health Assessment can select one of these three colors for each practice.

What is Red, Yellow & Green.

800

The Agile Manifesto was written in this year

What is 2001?

800

This acronym includes "measurable" and "timebound" to help build stronger goals

What is SMART?

800

12-month migration effort for this financially significant application responsible for the management of the majority of IBM's treasury functions, to CIO Private Cloud (CPC).

What is Wall Street Systems?

800

Stories should be written from the perspective of ___.

What is the User?

1000

As a form of giveback in Brilliant at the Basics, an IM or team can do this, defined as reviewing another squad and providing candid feedback to help them to improve

What is a Peer Review?

1000

Coined by Jim Collins in his book Built to Last, this 4-letter acronym represents a compelling, long-term goal that is intriguing enough to inspire employees of an organization to take action.

What is BHAG? Big Hairy Audacious Goal

1000

WIIFM

What is What's In It For Me?

1000

In October, Mental Health Awareness Month, Kathryn Guarini encouraged all team members to attain the Mental Health ___ badge.

What is Ally?

1000

All conditions for a project are met and ready to be accepted by a user for approved completion

What is the Definition of Done?