Scrum
Terminology
Government Projects
Customers/Distributor
TWS History
100

A short meeting (15 minutes or less) where the Development Team says what they did yesterday to help with the sprint goal, what they will do today, and what impediments they have.

What is the Sprint Daily Scrum (Stand-ups)?

100

Abbreviation for International Traffic in Arms Regulations

What is ITAR

100

Name of our large government project that will guide us to a brighter future

What is Polaris

100

Our Japanese Distributor

Who is CTC

100

The employee who has worked here the longest besides Kerry

Who is Teo

200

A relative unit of measure for expressing an effort estimate

What are story points

200

This is when the software is not working as intended

What is a bug (or defect)

200

The government project starting this month with composites

What is Dreamliner II

200

Brek Manufacturing is in this industry

What is aerospace

200

The company PM2D was initially purchased from

Who is GM

300

A time-box of one month or less during which a “Done”, useable, and potentially releasable product is created.

What is a sprint

300

A request for the software to do something that it is currently not programmed to do

What is an enhancement

300

SBIR is short for this

What is Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)

300

This customer has the largest number of AE cores

Who is Sandvik

300

In 2005 Third Wave purchased this item

What is the Mori Seiki NH6300 (five axis machining center)

400

Occurs when as many team members as possible work simultaneously on the same high priority item to complete that task.

What is swarming

400

In parallel computing MPI stands for

What is message passing interface

400

The shortest government project we have had in duration

What is AIM?

400

The longest user of Production Module (not including employees or distributors)

Who is Pat Hilber (General Motors)

400

Third Wave Systems gave away the microlution machine to this organization

Who is the University of St. Thomas

500

The person/group in charge of ordering the sprint backlog to ensure all the work gets done in the sprint

Who is the Development Team

500

A type of social engineering attack often used to steal user data, including login credentials and credit card numbers.

What is Phishing

500

The material our first SBIR project in 2001 was focused on improving machining modeling technology for

What is titanium

500

The biggest non-cutting tool customer for AE

Who is Toyota

500

This was the year TWS was incorporated

What is 1993?