The Agilist
Development (DEV) Team
Self organizing and cross functional team working together to develop the product.
Story Points
An arbitrary measure used by Scrum teams to determine the difficulty of implementing a given story.
Daily Scrum
A 15-minute daily meeting where the team has a chance to get on the same page and put together a strategy for the next 24 hours. Also called a Daily Standup. What have you completed since the last meeting? What do you plan to complete by the next meeting? Are there any blocks, obstacles or impediments that keep you form doing your work?
Servant Leadership
Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy in which the goal of the leader is to serve. This is different from traditional leadership where the leader's main focus is the thriving of their company or organization.
Jira
An agile project management tool that supports any agile methodology, be it scrum, kanban, or your own unique flavor. From agile boards, backlogs, roadmaps, reports, to integrations and add-ons you can plan, track, and manage all your agile software development projects from a single tool.
Velocity
Predicts how much work can be completed in a sprint and how much time is required to complete a project. The number is obtained by adding all the story points from the last sprint’s stories.
Retrospective
Discuss current sprint activity, Plan for further improvements for future sprints. Identify what went well, what could have been done better and what action items to show improvement.
Artifacts
Product backlog, Sprint backlog, Product Increment
Xtreme Planning (XP)
An agile software development framework that aims to produce higher quality software, and higher quality of life for the development team. XP is the most specific of the agile frameworks regarding appropriate engineering practices for software development.
Product Owner (PO)
A member of the Agile Team responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for the team.
Burn UP Chart
Tracks the progress of the project. Illustrates the amount of work completed.
Impediments
The obstacles or issues faced by a scrum team which slows down their speed of work. If something is blocking the scrum team from getting their work done, it is considered an impediment.
Scrum of Scrums
The meeting after the daily scrum where a responsible person from each scrum team (in the case of multiple scrum teams) attends to discuss their work and to answer questions.
Kanban
Kanban is a scheduling system for lean manufacturing. Taiichi Ohno, an industrial engineer at Toyota, developed kanban to improve manufacturing efficiency. The system takes its name from the cards that track production within a factory. Kanban is also known as the Toyota nameplate system in the automotive industry.
Sprint Review
An informal meeting held at the end of a sprint, in which the Scrum team shows what was accomplished during this period.
Burn DOWN Chart
Tracks the progress of the project. Illustrates the amount of work remaining to complete the project. Tracks the sprint status.
Scrum
A lightweight framework that implements agile mindset, values and principles.
Product Owner (PO)
Responsible for the work the team should complete. Motivate the team to achieve the goal and the vision of the project. Makes the major decisions.
Continuous Improvement
Also known as kaizen: is a method for identifying opportunities for streamlining work and reducing waste that grew out of the agile model. Continuous improvement can be used flexibly, allowing companies to deviate from the practice if necessary, and is highly beneficial when put to work.
Backlog Refinement
Formerly known as backlog grooming; is when the product owner and some, or all, of the rest of the team review items on the backlog to ensure the backlog contains the appropriate items, that they are prioritized, and that the items at the top of the backlog are ready for delivery.
User Stories
A tool used in agile development which represents a small piece of business value that a team can deliver in a sprint.
Sprint
A repeatable and regular work cycle in scrum methodology during which work is accomplished and kept ready for review.
Waterfall
The waterfall model is a breakdown of project activities into linear sequential phases, where each phase depends on the deliverables of the previous one and corresponds to a specialization of tasks. The approach is typical for certain areas of engineering design
Time Box
A defined period of time during which a task must be accomplished. Timeboxes are commonly used to manage software development risk. Development teams are repeatedly tasked with producing a releasable improvement to software, timeboxed to a specific number of weeks.
Sprint Planning
An event that establishes the product development goal and plan for the upcoming sprint, based on the team's review of its product backlog.