Agile
In 2001 several software industry leaders gathered at Snowbird ski resort and published this document describing a now famous approach to software development.
What is the Agile Manifesto?
Texas Hold'em is a close cousin of this estimation tool.
What is Planning Poker?
This person facilitates team decisions and ensures impediments are removed.
What is a ScrumMaster?
This high speed event usually lasts between 2-4 weeks.
What is the Sprint?
The method of restarting play in rugby football that involves players packing closely together with their heads down and attempting to gain possession of the ball.
What is a Scrum?
This is the primary measure of progress for an Agile development team.
What is Working Software?
The typical format is as follows: As a ___ I want to ___ so that ___.
What is a User Story?
This is usually 5-9 people is size.
What is a Development Team?
A tool Scrum teams use to Inspect and Adapt at the end of every development cycle.
What is a Retrospective?
Credited with inventing Rugby Union
Who is William Webb Ellis ?
The 2002 Standish Group study found that found that: 45% of features were never used; 19% used rarely; 16% sometimes; only 20% were used frequently or always.
This is a key reason why Agile projects focus on this.
What is Business Value?
A collection of features to implement the vision that are prioritized by business value.
What is the Product Backlog?
This is the person ultimately responsible for the product. He/She sets the vision and prioritizes the backlog.
Who is the Product Owner?
At the end of a sprint the team demonstrates the product at this meeting.
What is the Sprint Demo & Review?
A ceremonial dance performed by New Zealand, pre-match, as a challenge to the opponents.
What is the Haka?
Waterfall projects have fixed requirements and usually negotiate Cost and Schedule. Agile projects negotiate this.
What is Scope?
The number of story points that the team can complete in a given sprint.
What is the Velocity?
These are the people who enable the project and for whom the project will produce the agreed-upon benefit(s).
Who are the Stakeholders?
A meeting that lasts less than 15 minutes!
What is the Daily Standup (or Daily Scrum)?
Scored England's only try when the team won the rugby union World Cup in 2003.
Who is Jason Robinson (or Billy Whizz) ?
To satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
What is the Agile Manifesto's highest priority?
This person coined an evocative sporting metaphor for their process, which has stuck: Scrum.
Who is Hirotaka Takeuchi (or Ikujiro Nonaka)?
In the early 1990s, this person was the first to refer to the evolving development methodology using the single word "scrum".
Who is Ken Schwaber (or Jeff Sutherland) ?
A team that retains the problem while modifying Scrum to make the problem invisible, so that the dysfunction is no longer a thorn in the side of the team.
What is a ScrumBut?
House of Pain
What is Carisbrook?