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Try to do a better job of bringing in work that can be completed in parallel.

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12 points left in the wind - how do we fix?

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Not tracking all of our tasks on the board

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Not tracking all of our tasks on the board

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It seems like we had trouble focusing on the sprint stories

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It seems like we had trouble focusing on the sprint stories

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Kate - Celebrity API Developer

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Nice long holidays :)

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Hackathon was good - cross discipline experience for a day

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Heads-up On Broad Changes before Work is done.

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Heads-up On Broad Changes before Work is done.

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As a team, any changes that will affect others work should be communicated and not discovered in the bowels of a pull request.    A quick courtesy heads-up before changes are made.

Avoids the 'Ask for forgiveness' as a normal approach.   We sit near each other so a shout out could cause some healthy discussions. This would help keep a common understanding as a team.

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Did anyone else open the figma diagram yesterday and feel overwhelmed?

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Did anyone else open the figma diagram yesterday and feel overwhelmed?

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Asking the question is this related to the story I am working on

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Asking the question is this related to the story I am working on

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Not filling out tasks on stories made it hard to tell what was going on

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Not filling out tasks on stories made it hard to tell what was going on

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Really appreciated the help from the Android developers in setting up and starting QA functional tests.

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Longggggggg sprint

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The company has brainwashed people into staying here until 3am :(

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it felt like PR reviews took longer than it used

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Karthik didn't finish the new retro board yet

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Reviewing tests cases early on with team

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Reviewing tests cases early on with team

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Remember to start thinking about the demo and the slide deck the day before the demo

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Mark made t-shirts

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Fun hackathon days!!!

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Most QA tasks became ready last day of the sprint (excluding hacking days)

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Working on multiple stories in a single PR held back progress 

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Working on multiple stories in a single PR held back progress 

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We are a little bit in the dark on what Bangalore is doing for the factory service. How do we split responsibilities more cleanly, or stay in the loop with each other?

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It was so quite around here for two weeks it was wonderful.

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communication with res team and Kastle is going OK

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There has been no Product Manager interaction for more than 4 weeks now. We were told that there was a change there, but neither the old nor the new PM has even spoken to the team in that time. We have had questions, but we don't know where to go to get them answered because there is not participation.

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A few days without meetings made it easier to focus. Could we move grooming to between sprints or end sprints on Friday and start on a Monday?

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A few days without meetings made it easier to focus. Could we move grooming to between sprints or end sprints on Friday and start on a Monday?

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API user stories became ready for QA early in the sprint

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Although we accounted for the Hackathon and Holidays, we still did not budget time well enough on the Mobile side. This lead to missing items in the sprint.

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Thanks to Seth in helping in creating functional tests

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Thanks to Seth in helping in creating functional tests

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Seth Helped Karthik during Christmas week to learn and create functional tests in Android studio.

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Still getting requests from Firmware about how certificate retrieval works in Engage. Would API Management and better internal documentation fix this?

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One meetingless day/sprint?

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Whether you're craving a plain vanilla cone or an elaborate banana split, your local Dairy Queen has been the go-to spot for summertime soft-serve since 1940.

1. THE FIRST DQ WAS LOCATED IN JOLIET, ILLINOIS.

To promote the new soft-serve store, founder Sherb Noble suggested an "all you can eat for 10 cents" sale. The promotion was so popular, Noble worried that the stampede of customers would break the glass windows of the store front.

2. A "BRAZIER" DAIRY QUEEN IS ONE THAT SERVES HOT FOOD IN ADDITION TO ICE CREAM.

A "brazier," by the way, is another word for a charcoal grill.

3. THERE'S A RHYME AND REASON TO THE COMPANY'S NAME.

The original store was deemed Dairy Queen because Jack "Grandpa" McCullough, the "driving force" behind DQ's soft serve, said his creation was a queen among dairy products.

4. DAIRY QUEEN'S SOFT SERVE RECIPE IS A HIGHLY GUARDED TRADE SECRET.

And just like KFC and Coke, they'll never reveal the ingredients. "[The formula] is kept in a safe deposit box and there are only a few keys to it," DQ's chief branding officer, Michael Keller, has said.

5. NO DOUBT FORMED AT A DAIRY QUEEN IN 1986.

Gwen Stefani and her brother Eric worked with other founding member John Spence at an Anaheim store, where they discussed forming a band. Other celebrity DQ employees include former Attorney General John Ashcroft, actress Bonnie Hunt, and singer Martina McBride.

6. THOUGH DAIRY QUEEN HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE 1940, IT DIDN'T INTRODUCE ITS TRADEMARK BLIZZARDS UNTIL 1985.

They sold more than 175 million Blizzards in the very first year.

7. MANY FRANCHISES TURN BLIZZARDS UPSIDE DOWN IN FRONT OF CUSTOMERS BEFORE SERVING.

It's proof of how thick and delicious their soft-serve is-but it's also a total marketing gimmick. Some stores offer the treat for free if the employee fails to perform the trick.

You can credit a teenage boy in Missouri for inspiring the practice. In the 1950s, Ted Drewes Jr. ran a frozen custard stand located in St. Louis, where he sold concretes-frozen custard mixed with bits of fruit. In 1959, 14-year-old Steve Gamber made a habit of visiting Drewes's stand nearly every day and asking for a chocolate malt. Every time Drewes handed it to him, Gamber would ask for him to make it thicker.

Eventually, Gamber said, Drewes got fed up and started turning it upside down "just to shut me up." But the tradition lasted, and Drewes began turning every customer's concrete upside down before serving it. In the 1970s, Dairy Queen franchisee Sam Temperato, who owned several DQ restaurants in St. Louis, took notice of both Drewes's concretes and cheeky presentation and went to Dairy Queen executives with the proposal for the first Blizzard. ( Ted Drewes, meanwhile, is still a St. Louis institution.)

8. THE GREEN TEA BLIZZARD IS THE #1 SELLER IN CHINA.

In the U.S., the most popular Blizzard is Oreo.

9. WARREN BUFFETT LOVES DAIRY QUEEN.

Of course, he owns it-at least, Berkshire Hathaway does-but he really supports the product. Once, while dining at the Four Seasons in New York City, he asked staff to pick him up some DQ ice cream for dessert. Unfortunately, the city didn't have a DQ location at the time, so he had to settle for some cookies.

10. DQ SOLD A FROZEN YOGURT OPTION IN THE '90S, BUT IT DIDN'T CATCH ON.

You may remember the Breeze, a lower-calorie Blizzard alternative that was made with frozen yogurt. It was around for about a decade before the company pulled it from the menu, saying demand was so low that the frozen yogurt would often go bad before it could be used.

11. DALLAS MAVERICKS OWNER MARK CUBAN ANGERED DAIRY QUEEN EMPLOYEES ACROSS THE NATION IN 2002.

Cuban suggested that Ed Rush, the NBA's head of officiating, wasn't even capable of managing a Dairy Queen. In response, the company invited the billionaire to give it a shot himself-and he accepted their offer. Wearing a "Tony" nametag, Cuban spent two hours serving customers at a Dairy Queen in Coppell, Texas, in 2002. He had trouble perfecting the trademark "Q" swirl at the top of soft-serve cones.

12. TECHNICALLY, WHEN YOU ORDER A CONE OR CUP AT DAIRY QUEEN, YOU'RE NOT GETTING ICE CREAM.

According to the company, "Our soft-serve does not qualify to be called ice cream. To be categorized as ice cream, the minimum butterfat content must be 10 percent, and our soft-serve has only 5 percent butterfat."

13. THE DILLY BAR WAS INVENTED IN 1955.

The soft-serve round coated in chocolate and finished with that signature Dairy Queen swirl was introduced to the franchise by Robert Litherland, the co-owner of a store in Moorhead, Minnesota. Employees of an ice cream distributor in Minneapolis showed up at Litherland's door to demonstrate the technique, and finished by holding up the completed bar and saying, "Now, isn't that a dilly!" The name stuck, though Litherland had one regret: "We weren't smart enough to copyright that name." Too bad; it's been getting plenty of use elsewhere lately.

14. THE "MOOLATTE" ICE CREAM TREAT GENERATED SOME CONTROVERSY.

When DQ rolled out the MooLatte frozen coffee drink in 2004, more than a few eyebrows were raised at the made-up word's similarity to the slur "mulatto." But the controversy wasn't enough to squash the product; it's still around today.

15. DENNIS THE MENACE WAS THE COMPANY SPOKESTOON UNTIL 2002.

When the copyright license expired, Dairy Queen chose not to renew it. It's been speculated that company execs felt Dennis was no longer a character kids related to.

16. THERE WAS ONCE A "LITTLE MISS DAIRY QUEEN."

Clad in a Dutch-style cap, dress, and shoes, Little Miss Dairy Queen was featured as a 5-foot weather vane in a select few locations. Most are gone now, but see if you can spot one on your next road trip.

17. THE WORLD'S LARGEST BLIZZARD WEIGHED 8260.85 POUNDS.

It was made in 2005 in Springfield, Massachusetts. Guinness doesn't specify the flavor, but if we had to guess, we'd say it was Oreo.

18. DAIRY QUEEN ALSO HOLDS THE RECORD FOR THE WORLD'S LARGEST ICE CREAM CAKE.

Made of sponge cake and vanilla ice cream, the dessert was constructed in Toronto in 2011. It weighed more than 10 tons and was topped with a ridiculous amount of crushed Oreo cookies.

19. SAUDI ARABIA REALLY LOVES DAIRY QUEEN.

It must, anyway-otherwise, Berkshire Hathaway wouldn't have opened the world's largest Dairy Queen in Riyadh. The two-level restaurant is 7500 square feet and can seat 240 customers.

20. THE BLIZZARDMOBILE WAS A THING.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Blizzard in 2010, DQ took a cue from Oscar Mayer and rolled out the Blizzardmobile, a large truck that stopped at 25 cities in the U.S. and Canada. The truck distributed free mini Blizzards and conducted various games for coupons and prizes.
A version of this list first ran in 2016.

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20 Things You Didn't Know About Dairy Queen

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Whether you're craving a plain vanilla cone or an elaborate banana split, your local Dairy Queen has been the go-to spot for summertime soft-serve since 1940. 1. THE FIRST DQ WAS LOCATED IN JOLIET, ILLINOIS. To promote the new soft-serve store, founder Sherb Noble suggested an "all you can eat for 10 cents" sale.

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Task out stories during planning/respite to ensure manageable chunks?

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Figma diagram changes till last minute, not sure it is good or bad????

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Methods, listeners(or delegates) referred in the figma diagram seem different iOS vs Android. Not sure it is normal????

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Spent hours to figure out build version needs to be updated in order to make the project work with correct implementation. Might help if some info in the help file or share some info to QA????

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Start using given when and Then.
Thinking more link an end user and defining our acceptance criteria

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Thank you for your QUICK help, Julian and being available

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API team was quick on fixing reported issue(s)

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API team rocks on sharing knowledge, explaining the implementations and delivering API docs :)

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Anybody hear anything about the new innovation hours we are supposed to have set aside this year? Are we going to need to factor into our sprint?