Kanban Concepts
The set of principles and practices on which Kanban is based, meant to eliminate waste in software development.
What is Lean Software Development?
The amount of time between when a Team starts working on a PBI and the implementation of the PBI.
What is Cycle Time?
A brief description of a specific product feature or function, written from the customer's perspective.
What is a User Story?
A foundation of Agile theory and the scientific method, this is the theory that knowledge comes from experience.
What is a Empiricism?
The Japanese company that developed Lean thinking and principles.
What is Toyota?
Along with visualizing work and eliminating waste, maximizing this is the third goal of Kanban.
What is Maximizing Customer Value?
The amount of time between when a piece of work is requested by the business and when it is implemented.
What is Lead Time?
The artifact that contains all identified work to be completed for a Team or Product.
What is the Team/Product Backlog?
A value assigned to a user story for planning purposes - it is not a time estimate, but a relative value.
What is a Story Point?
The year Agile was started as a defined practice; also an Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick collaboration.
What is 2001?
"JIT" stands for this - the basis of a Kanban workflow, where work is triggered by a pull process based on demand.
What is the Just In Time?
A measure of work items completed during a given time frame.
What is Throughput?
The conditions under which a piece of work may be considered complete and ready for implementation.
What are Acceptance Criteria?
According to the Agile Principles, it's an Agile team's primary measure of progress.
What is Working Software?
An early Agile development methodology focused on responding to changing requirements and paired programming.
What is Extreme Programming (XP)?
A general term for anyone who has a stake or interest in the work done by the Team.
What is a Stakeholder?
The number of items being actively worked in any given status.
What is Work in Progress (WIP)
The directive that says, among other things, that Agile Software Development values "Responding to change over following a plan".
What is the Agile Manifesto?
The Agile Manifesto tells us that Working Software is more valuable than this sometimes tedious deliverable.
What is Comprehensive Documentation?
In Agile, "MVP" - The smallest increment of product which must be released in order to deliver value - stands for this.
What is Minimum Viable Product?
The act of focusing on a particular area for improvement over a given period of time.
What is Kaizen?
The visual representation of PBIs in all statuses over time.
What is a Cumulative Flow Diagram?
An obstacle that reduces an Agile Team’s productivity or prevents them from completing an Agile task or project.
What is an impediment?
The sequential model of software development, as opposed to Agile's incremental and iterative workflow.
What is Waterfall?
The long-term consequence of poor design decisions, often incurred for the sake of expediency.
What is Technical Debt?