Terms Glossary

• Abnormal Termination

• Acceptance Criteria

• Acceptance-Based Story

• Accountable/Accountability

• Actionable Story

• Agile

• Agile Actuary

• Agile Analysis

• Agile Coach

• Agile Improvement

• Agile Transformation

• Agility

• Agreement-Based Planning

• Alignment

• Analysis Story

• Architecturally Significant Story

• Architecture

• Back Burner

• Backchanneling

• Backlog

• Backlog Item

• Backlog Maintenance

• Backlog Refinement

• Bug

• BuildUp

• BurnDown

• BurnUp

• Business Organization

• Business Owner

• Business Value (BV)

• Business’s Product Owner

• Cadence

• Cancelling a Sprint

• Capability

• Capacity

• Capacity-Driven Planning

• Catch Feedback

• Change Agent

• Checklist Item BuildUp

• Chief Scrum Master

• Chore

• Clean Code

• CleanUp Story

• Clients

• Co-Located

• Code Complete

• Coding Story

• Commitment

• Complex Problem

• Conflict Resolution Process

• Continuous Development Strategy

• Continuous Flow

• Continuous Planning

• Coordination Team

• Coordinator

• Courage

• Crew Chief

• Cross-Cutting Workgroup

• Cross-Functional

• CSM

• CURB

• Customers

• Daily Scrum

• Daily Standup

• Defect

• Definition of Done (DoD)

• Definition of Ready (DoR)

• Deliverable Results

• Delivery Forecast

• Delivery Planning Meeting

• Developer

• Development Team

• DevTeam

• Do Work

• DoD

• Done

• Done Increment

• Doneness Agreement

• Due Diligence

• Effort [for a Story]

• EffortPoint

• Empirical Process

• Empirical Process Control

• Environmental Variables

• Epic

• Estimation Game

• Executive Review

• Exemplar Story

• Extracting Stories

• eXtreme Programming (XP)

• Feature

• Feature Complete

• Flaccid Product Ownership

• Flow Management Team

• Focus

• Forecast

• Freezer

• Fridge

• Front Burner

• Full-Time

• Functional Story

• General Agreement

• GO

• Gold-Plating

• Governance

• Grooming

• Group

• Group Leadership Team

• Group Owner

• Guidance

• Hardening Sprint

• High-Ceremony Agility

• Humor

• Hybridized Agile

• Ideal Effort

• Ideal Engineering Hour/Day

• Impediment

• Improvement Backlog

• Improvement Story

• Improvement Team

• InBox

• Increment

• Informed Process

• Interested Bystander

• Intraspective

• Intrinsic Difficulty

• Item

• Kaizen

• Kanban

• Kanban Change Management Principles

• Kanban Meeting

• Kanban Method

• Kanban Practices

• Kanban Principles

• Kanban Service Delivery Principles

• Kanban System

• Kanban Values

• Kanban(ish) Variant

• Lead Time

• Leadership

• Leadership Team

• Lean Principles

• Lollygagging

• Management Team

• Mental Agility

• Mission

• Mission Protection

• Modern Scrum

• Monitoring Sprint Progress

• MTS

• Multi-Team Scrum

• Objective

• One Big Thing (OBT)

• Openness

• Operations Review Meeting

• Order

• Organizational Noise

• Over-Swarm

• Pairing

• Paradigm Induced Blindness

• People with Power (PwP)

• Physical Agility

• PlaceHolder Story

• Plan of Action

• Planning

• Planning Day

• Pod

• Pod Flow Management Team

• Pod Owner

• Potentially Releasable

• Potentially Shippable

• Power Hierarchy

• Priority

• Product

• Product Backlog

• Product Backlog Item

• Product Champion

• Product Goal

• Product Increment

• Product Owner

• Product Owner Team

• Product Ownership

• Product Review

• Product Roadmap

• Product Vision

• Product-Product

• Product-Product Owner

• Product’s Product Owner

• Production Team

• Progress Review

• Project Review

• Psychological Safety

• Pull Feedback

• Purpose Hierarchy

• PwP

• Quality Code

• Ready Backlog

• Ready Story

• Real Product

• Refactoring

• Refinement

• Regular Sync-Up

• Regulators

• Regulatory Constraint

• Release

• Release Sprint

• Release Strategy

• Replenishment

• Replenishment Meeting

• Representative

• Resolution Process

• Respect

• Responsible

• Results

• Results Backlog

• Retrospective

• Review

• Rhythm

• Risk Review Meeting

• Roadmap

• Safety

• Scale-Ready

• Scaling

• Scaling Scrum with Scrum® (SSwS)

• Scenario

• Scrum

• Scrum Board

• Scrum G

• Scrum Guide

• Scrum H

• Scrum in a Nutshell

• Scrum Master Community

• Scrum Master Team

• Scrum Mastering

• Scrum P

• Scrum Process

• Scrum Team

• Scrum Values

• Scrum-of-Scrums (SoS)

• ScrumMaster (Scrum Master)

• Self-Contained

• Self-Organized

• Service Delivery

• Service Delivery Review Meeting

• Single Item Flow

• Single-Team Scrum

• Size [of a Story]

• Slack

• Small [size of a Team]

• Small Project Strategy

• SME

• SME Availability

• SoC

• Spike

• Sprint

• Sprint Backlog

• Sprint Cancellation

• Sprint Commitment

• Sprint End

• Sprint Forecast

• Sprint Goal

• Sprint Interrupt

• Sprint Objective

• Sprint Planning

• Sprint Retrospective

• Sprint Review

• Sprint Team

• Sprint Zero

• Squad Leader

• Stakeholder

• Standard of Care

• Startup Sprint

• Stay-At-Home

• Story

• Story Agreement

• Story Board

• Story Owner

• Story Size

• Story Time

• Storyotype

• StoryPoint

• Strategic Agility

• Strategy Review Meeting

• Structure

• STS

• Subject Matter Expert (SME)

• Sustainable Pace

• Swarm

• Swarmer

• Swarming

• Tactical Agility

• Task

• Team

• Team Ability

• Team Captain

• Team Facilitator

• Team Member

• Team Norms

• Team Representative

• Team Retrospective

• Team Swarm

• Team Values

• Team-at-a-Table

• Team-of-Teams

• Team-Product

• Team’s Kaizen

• Team’s Product Owner

• TeamLet

• Technical Debt

• Three-People-at-a-Whiteboard

• Time-Boxed Story

• Transformation Owner

• Transformation Team

• UnDone

• Use Case

• User Story

• Validation

• Value-Driven

• Values

• Velocity

• Verification

• Virtual Team

• Visibility

• Walking Skeleton

• Waterfall

• Well-Defined Story

• Well-Formed Team

• WFT

• What Next

• Whole Team

• WIBNI

• WIP

• WIP Limit

• Work Backlog

• Work in Progress

• Work Items

• Work Results

• Workgroup

• WorkRate

• XP

• Zombie Scrum