Agile Vocab
This is a list of features or technical tasks which the team maintains.
What is a Backlog?
In Kanban, you organize your work on this.
What is a Kanban Board?
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?
This person facilitates team decisions and ensures impediments are removed.
What is the Scrum Master?
We value this over comprehensive documentation.
What is Working Software?
Work divided up by a team to be done into functional increments.
What are User Stories?
Scrum usually has at least 3 roles, while Kanban usually has this many roles.
What is Zero (0)?
This the most efficient and effective method of conveying information within a development team.
What is Face-to-Face Conversation?
This is usually 4-7 people in size.
What is the Delivery Team?
We value this over following a plan.
What is Responding to Change?
The practice of merging code changes into a shared repository several times a day.
What is Continuous Integration?
Daily Double: These are the three required columns of a Kanban Board.
What are To Do (Ready), Doing (In Progress), and Done?
This is the ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes.
What is Continuous Improvement?
These are the people who enable the project and for whom the project will produce the agreed-upon benefit(s).
What are Stakeholders?
We value this over contract negotiation.
What is Customer Collaboration?
The explicit convention that every team member can make changes to any code file as necessary.
What is Collective Ownership?
Name two of the Kanban principles.
What is Visualizing Flow, Limiting WIP (Work In Progress), and Enhancing/Managing Flow?
Agile projects should focus on delivering this.
What is Business Value?
Who is responsible for creating the definition of the Definition of Done (DoD)?
Who is The Development Team?
We values these over processes and tools.
What are Individuals and Interactions?
A previously agreed period of time during which a team works towards completion of some goal.
What is a Timebox?
Kanban translate to this from Japanese.
What is Billboard, Signboard, or Sign?
This ceremony promotes regular reflection and adjustment.
What is a Retrospective?
This person orders the backlog as he/she sees fit
Who is the Product Owner?
While there is value in the items on the _____, we value the items on the _____ more.
What is the Right and the Left?