Glossary of Terms
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80:20 Rule
See Pareto Principle
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Agile
A style of working where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organising, cross-functional teams. It promotes adaptive planning, iterative development and incremental delivery. A timeboxed, iterative approach encourages rapid and flexible systemic response to change.
Agile Coach
A person responsible for guiding individuals and teams in their adoption of agile ways of working; they serve as mentors who facilitate agile thinking and practices.
Agile Procurement
An agile way of procuring products and services for an organisation.
AgilePfM (Agile Portfolio Management)
AgilePfM is a bespoke approach to agile portfolio management created by the Agile Business Consortium.
AgilePgM (Agile Programme Management)
AgilePgM is a bespoke approach to agile programme management created by the Agile Business Consortium.
AgilePM (Agile Project Management)
AgilePM is an agile project management approach based on the DSDM Agile Project Framework. AgilePM adds depth and detail to DSDM that is relevant to project management and de-emphasises some other elements related to solution development.
AgilePM for Scrum
AgilePM for Scrum is an evolution and customization of AgilePM that is designed to provide a wider agile project perspective for one or multiple Scrum teams working to achieve a specific business (as opposed to product) goal.
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Backlog
A list of things waiting to be done. There are different types of backlogs for example Scrum features a product backlog and sprint backlog as two of its artefacts.
Backlog Grooming
A redundant term from earlier versions of Scrum. Now called Backlog Refinement.
Backlog Refinement
From Scrum: Also (redundantly) known as backlog grooming, this is the ongoing process of reviewing updating and ordering product backlog items to ensure that they are ready ‘just in time’ for development.
Benefit
The measurable improvement resulting from an outcome perceived as an advantage by one or more stakeholders, which contributes towards one or more organisational objectives.
Beta
The term Beta may be used to describe a prototype of a product or service that is ready for exposure to its target audience (a Beta) – or to describe a phase in the evolutionary development of such a product or service (the Beta phase). In this context of four phases, in order, are Discovery, Alpha, Beta and Live.
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Daily Stand-Up
A short team meeting, often lasting 15 minutes or less each day that provides team members with the opportunity to inspect their progress towards their collective goal and to plan how best to continue. It is called a stand-up from the original intent that participants should stand rather than sit in their shared workplace to encourage them to keep the meeting as short as possible. The Daily Scrum event in Scrum is an example of a daily Stand-Up meeting.
Definition of Done (DoD)
What it means for a job to be complete. It usually involves a list of criteria that must be met before an item can be considered finished. In Scrum the DoD is the commitment for the product Increment being developed and is defined as “a formal description of the state of the Increment when it meets the quality measures required for the product.”