Ceremonies
Agile Terms 1
Backlog Refinement
Technical
Agile Terms 2
100

A short, daily meeting to discuss progress and identify blockers.

What is a Daily Huddle? 

100

A means to design, manage, and improve flow systems for knowledge work 

What is Kanban?

100

A small, independent unit of work of functionality that supports incremental piece of business value

What is a user story?

100

An extension of continuous integration, aiming at minimizing lead time, the time elapsed between development writing one new line of code and this new code being used by live users, in production.

What is continuous deployment?

100

Checklist that needs be met for a story to be considered Done in a Sprint

What is DoD?

200

For which ceremony are the following outcomes: Sprint Backlog, team commitment, and plan to deliver committed work items.

What is Sprint Planning?

200

Version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.

What is a minimal viable product?

200

Detailed, synthetic biographies of fictitious users of the future product

What are personas?

200

An agile team collaboration framework commonly used in software development and other industries

What is Scrum?

200

Any of a number of handwritten, drawn, printed or electronic displays which a team places in a highly visible location, so that all team members as well as passers-by can see the latest information at a glance

What is an information radiator?

300

A ceremony that is held after a sprint review and before the start of the next sprint

What is a Sprint Retrospective?

300

An ability to create and respond to change and a way to deal with uncertainty.

What is Agile?

300

A playful approach to estimation, used by many Agile teams.

What is planning poker?
300

The practice of automating the integration of code changes from multiple contributors into a single software project

What is continuous integration?

300

Common solutions to common problems where the solution is ineffective and may result in undesired consequences

What are antipatterns?

400

Inspect the outcome of the Sprint and determine future adaptations.

What is a Sprint Review?
400

A list of the new features, changes to existing features, bug fixes, infrastructure changes or other activities that a team may deliver in order to achieve a specific outcome.

What is a Product Backlog?

400

When a User Story is ready to be taken into a Sprint and when all necessary conditions are right for a pod to start a Sprint

What is DoR?

400

The practice of integrating security testing at every stage of the software development process

What is DevSecOps?

400

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

What is an Agile Manifesto?

500

Collectively review a series of candidate stories (including BAU) for future sprints, enabling pod members to gain a better understanding of each story.

What is a Backlog Refinement?

500

A synthesis and refinement of practices stemming from Test Driven Development (TDD) and Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)

What is BDD?

500

Before a user story is ready to be scheduled for implementation in an upcoming iteration, it should be “small enough,” the usual rule of thumb being “a story that can be completed within the iteration”.

What is story splitting?
500

Two programmers sharing a single workstation (one screen, keyboard and mouse among the pair)

What is pair programming?

500

Improving the internal structure of an existing program’s source code, while preserving its external behavior.

What is refactoring?