Walking Skeleton
[waw-king skel-i-tn]
Definition of Walking Skeleton
A subset of the System that demonstrates the basic architectural decisions; it is the result of many Architecturally Significant Stories.
Examples
Teams often build a Walking Skeleton in the first few Sprints of a Release, in order to provide the architecture and infrastructure to support the features being released.
That is, early Sprints in a release often put together a ‘walking skeleton’ (demonstrating the architectural decisions in running code) based on doing Architecturally Significant Stories, and the later Sprints focus on adding Business Value by adding ‘meat on the bones.’
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"Walking Skeleton" ScrumDictionary.com. Accessed Apr 12, 2024. https://scrumdictionary.com/term/walking-skeleton/.