| "Agile Ceremonies What would you say....you do here?" | "Soft Skills Clues related to the finer parts of our role." | "Surviving at work General things we should know or would be helpful to know." | "Random things I know." | 1980s Trivia |
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What is a daily standup?
I think you said the same thing all week.
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What is listening?
The reason I sometimes repeat what you just told me.
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What is "You forgot to include requestor comments?"
My PTO request was kicked back for rework for no apparent reason whatsoever.
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What is "The length of time I have to take my SAFe exam." ?
30 days after the class ends
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What was "The Titanic"
This famous shipwreck was found in 1985
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What is a retro?
Nothing. Not a single thing went well.
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What is critical thinking?
Evaluating possible solutions is just one part of this skill.
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What is "The number of browser tabs you can have open before your computer crashes."?
The answer is not "42". It's actually much greater than that.
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What are Teams and Yammer?
These are the collaboration tools we are supposed to standardize around.
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What is "Blockbuster"?
This movie rental store had their biggest success in the 1980s.
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What is a backlog grooming?
There's as much reason for us to be here as there is for Telly Sevalas to be at comb factory.
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What is Time Management or Work Ethic?
Making sure there is an agenda in every meeting invite so people know why they are being invited and can come prepared.
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What is "File paperwork for a medical leave of absence. " ?
Really? I have to do this after haven been sick for four days?
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What are "Snow Machines"? (Will also accept "Barbers".)
If they aren't there for it, grooming is likely not going to go well.
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What is HIll Valley?
This was the name of the town in Back to the future.
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What is Sprint planning?
All we have to do is agree that everything will get done, whether we understand it or not, and we can go back to coding.
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What is "Integrity"?
Bill does what he says. If he commits to something, you can count on it.
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What is Cognizant Cheers!
This is how I can say nice things about my team members and have it be part of their personnel file.
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What are the original goals in the SOW vs what we now know in real life.
The thing we have to constantly renegotiate and reinforce over and over for the life of the project.
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Who was Aretha Franklin
The first woman to get inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of fame.
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What is the client demo?
I swear that this worked yesterday. / 1 hour ago/ 10 minutes ago
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What is "Creativity"?
The ability to think about a task or problem in a new or different way.
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What are DE(Digital Engineering), DX (Digital Experience) and Softvision?
The three practices that are merging under IDE(Integrated Digital Experience).
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What is "Bad news"?
Unlike wine or cheese, time does not make this any better.
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Who was Weird Al Yankovic
Made it in to the Billboard Top 100 with the song "I lost on Jeopardy!"
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