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 FDD Acronym for Feature Driven Development - a development methodology founded by Jeff DeLuca Feature Teams An adaptation of FDD that is used on many methodology that aligns formation of teams along features to be developed Feedback Informed opinion about some activity or work or process that will help improve it going forward Followers Passive opponents of the scrum methodology who like to follow the old methods Functional managers Managers who have reporting authority over the team members, i.e. who own the resources Goal Description of the end state or where we want to end up Grooming (of backlog) An activity that involves paying attention to - clarifying, estimating and adding more details (to the user stories in the backlog) Grow and Split One of the models of expanding Scrum adoption, where the team grows to an extent that it eventually needs to be split into multiple teams Human Resources Refers to the team members or the department in the organization that is responsible for providing systems and support to the team members Humility One of the desired attributes of a scrum master; to be able to put the team ahead of self (e.g. let the team take credit for the work) IC Acronym for Improvement Committees - often formed in an organization's Scrum transformation to improve a specific area (e.g. Agile Testing) IND Short for Individualism - one of the parameters for assessing and quantifying cultural differences Integration Activity of combining the different elements of the system to build the entire system into a deployment ready state Integration Team A team dedicated to carry out integration activities and overcoming challenges found during integration Iron Triangle A term sometimes used to describe the Triple constraints on a project, viz. Scope, Cost and Time Kickoff meeting A meeting of all the team members and stakeholders at the beginning of a project - to get everybody aligned around the goals of the project Knowledge One of the attributes necessary for being successful, e.g. as a scrum master - knowing the Scrum methodology Lateral communication Another way of describing communication that follows informal channels (as in distributed teams) Lateral thinking Pattern of thinking that is used to encourage diverse and innovative ideas Manual Testing Testing that is done by hand by a tester Metrics A measure or indicator that is used to quantify something Multi-tasking A way of working that requires working on multiple tasks at the same time Organizational gravity The idea that a new idea will meet some resistance and eventually be weighed down by the inertia of the organization Osmotic communication Communication that spreads through currents, not just to the direct recipients but those who overhear or are in the cc. list Pair programming Style of programming where two programmers share a terminal - one drives the coding and the other observes and provides real time feedback Pattern A recognizable method or formation that gives a more predictable or intended outcome PDI Acronym for Power-Distance-Index; one of the attributes of quantifying cultural differences Pilot project A project that is chosen to test out a new method or process (e.g. pilot project for Scrum adoption) PMO Acronym for Project Management Office - a committee that maintains the project management processes, templates and guidelines in an organization Potentially Shippable System that is ready to be shipped to the customers if required Product Backlog A collection - usually in priority order - of all the work items related to a product that add value to a customer Productivity A measure of the amount of output that can be generated by a team or an individual or an organization Product line owner Usually higher designation than Product owner, somebody who owns the backlog for an entire product line Product owner