Agile Scrum Master Glossary, Complete Solution (Verified)

Agile Scrum Master Glossary, Complete Solution (Verified) Accountability "Buck stops here" position for any task or activity - who is ultimately going to be held accountable for something ACT Acronym for Agile Champions Team - a team that evangelizes Agile across the organization ADAPT Acronym for Awareness, Desire, Ability, Promotion, Transfer: A model that describes necessary conditions for success of Agile adoption All-In pattern A pattern for agile adoption wherein the entire organization goes in for agile adoption all at the same time (as opposed to Small pilot - see below) Analysts Usually meant to refer to business analysts who translate business requirements into system requirements Anti-pattern A symptom of a deeper dysfunction that indicates improper or incorrect implementation Architect Usually meant to refer to Technical architects, who establish the design patterns and provide the technology roadmap to the team Assessments Questionnaires or evaluation methods to ascertain the level of maturity in a certain discipline - e.g. Agile assessment ATDD Acceptance Test Driven Development - a pattern of working that emphasizes writing the acceptance tests before even writing the code Backlog A collection of "work items" that the team can work on, resulting in additional value to the team Balanced scorecards A system of measuring the health of a system from various points of view to get a holistic view Big room A pattern for running sprint planning meetings for multiple scrum teams working on the same project Card (or story card) Representing an index card (usually 3X5 inches or 4X6 inches) on which a story is written CDE Acronym for Containers, Differences and Exchanges - constraints within which a self-organized team operates C-FORC Acronym for Commitment, Focus, Openness, Respect, Courage - the values of Scrum Chief Product Owner A title often given to the manager of all the product owners working on a single (large or enterprise scale) product Coach Analogous to a sports trainer or coach - usually indicating a team's mentor either on a technology or a process Collective ownership The notion that the whole team is collectively responsible and accountable for the success or failure Commitment The team "signing up" to deliver to a certain plan - either a sprint or a release plan Commitment driven planning A method of planning that you can only add as many work items to a sprint or a release as the team is willing to make a commitment towards Communities of practice A collection (usually informal) of team members who share a specific skill or practice (e.g. automation testers) Compliance Demonstrate adherence (usually mandatory) to a certain standard or framework (e.g. ISO 9000) Conditions of satisfaction Usually intended to mean acceptance tests or criteria that will be used to ascertain whether a certain requirement is met Continuous integration An extreme programming practice that believes the code should be always integrated and maintained in usable condition (used in conjunction with automated testing) Cross-functional teams A team containing diversity of skills that enables it to deliver a finished increment of product; adding tangible value on its own Daily Standup/Daily Scrum Term used to describe a daily meeting of the Scrum team Dependencies A requirement or condition that needs to be fulfilled before something can happen Diehards Opponents of Scrum who are too much in love with the current methodology Distributed teams Teams that are geographically dispersed (opposite of collocated) Epic A large or aggregated user story that captures a major requirement or theme for a project Estimate Forecast or educated guess about the effort or time required to accomplish some work ETC Acronym for Enterprise Transition Community (or Committee) - a team that manages and steers an organization's agile transformation