Team Practices Group/Glossary

NOTE: Definitions are a work-in-progress. Terms will be added or removed as needed.

Acceptance criteria

Acceptance testing

Agile

Agile coach

Agile Manifesto

Artifact

Automated testing

Behavior-driven development (BDD, a practice)

Backlog *

Backlog grooming

Blocker

Bug *

Burndown chart

Burndown wolves

Burnup chart

Business value

Capacity

Ceremony

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)

Code review

Code smell

Collocated team

Continuous delivery/deployment

Continuous improvement

Continuous integration

Cross-functional team

Customer

Crystal (a family of methodologies)

Daily scrum (meeting) *

Daily standup (meeting) *

Defect

Delivery

Distributed team

Domain-driven design

Done-done

DSDM ("Dynamic systems development method", a methodology)

Emergent architecture

Emergent design

Epic (a type of story) *

Estimation

Extreme Programming (XP, a methodology)

Fail-fast

Feature

Feature creep

Feature-driven development (FDD, a practice)

Fibonacci sequence (for estimation)

Flow (a state of being)

Ideal day/hour

Impediment

Increment

Incremental development

Information radiator

Integration testing

Iteration

Iteration zero

Just-in-time (JIT)

Kanban

Large-scale scrum (LeSS, a methodology)

Lean development

Metrics

Minimum marketable features (MMFs)

Minimum releasable features (MRFs)

Minimum viable product (MVP)

MoSCoW (a technique for prioritizing)

Pace

Planning board

Phabricator

Pair programming

Planning game

Planning poker

Potentially shippable product

Priority platypus

Product backlog

Product manager

Product owner

Product owner proxy

RUP ("Rational unified process", a methodology)

Refactoring

Release

Release plan

Release train

Retrospective

Quality

Scaled agile framework (SAFe, a methodology)

Scrum

Scrumban

Scrumbut

Scrum of scrums

ScrumMaster

Scrum team

Seasoned alligators

Self-organization

Shirt sizing (estimation)

Spike

Sprint

Sprint backlog

Sprint demo

Sprint planning meeting

Sprint retrospective

Sprint review

Stakeholder

Standup (meeting)

Story *

Story mapping

Story points

Storyboard

Sustainable pace

Task

Task board

Team health

Technical debt

Technical stories

Test-driven development (TDD, a practice)

Timebox

Use case

Vertical slice

Work in progress (WIP)

Unit testing

User story

Velocity

Waterfall

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