Scrum Glossary

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shows the amount of work which is thought to remain in a backlog

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Burn-down Chart

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shows the amount of work which has been completed

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Burn-up Chart

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The quality of the relationship between certain Product Backlog items which may make them worthy of consideration as a whole

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Coherent/Coherence

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Scrum Event that is a 15-minute time-boxed event held each day for the Developers

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Daily Scrum

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a formal description of the state of the Increment when it meets the quality measures required for the product

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Definition of Done

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any member of a Scrum Team, that is committed to creating any aspect of a usable Increment each Sprint regardless of technical, functional or other specialty

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Developer

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the process of the coming into existence or prominence of new facts or new knowledge of a fact, or knowledge of a fact becoming visible unexpectedly

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Emergence

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process control type in which only the past is accepted as certain and in which decisions are based on observation, experience and experimentation

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Empiricism

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a shared set of development and technology standards that Developers apply to create releasable Increments of software

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Engineering standards

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the selection of items from the Product Backlog Developers deems feasible for implementation in a Sprint

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Forecast (of functionality)

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Scrum Artifact that defines the complete and valuable work produced by the Developers during a Sprint

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Increment

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A Scrum Artifact that consists of an ordered list of the work to be done in order to create, maintain and sustain a product

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Product Backlog

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the activity in a Sprint through which the Product Owner and the Developers add granularity to the Product Backlog

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Product Backlog refinement

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Role in Scrum accountable for maximizing the value of a product

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Product Owner

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describes a future state of the product which can serve as a target for the Scrum Team to plan against

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Product Goal

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shared understanding by the Product Owner and the Developers regarding the preferred level of description of Product Backlog items introduced at Sprint Planning

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Ready

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a lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems

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Scrum

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a physical board to visualize information for and by the Scrum Team

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Scrum Board

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the definition of Scrum, written and provided by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, co-creators of Scrum

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Scrum Guide

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Role within a Scrum Team accountable for guiding, coaching, teaching and assisting a Scrum Team and its environments in a proper understanding and use of Scrum

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Scrum Master

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a self-managing team consisting of one Scrum Master, one Product Owner, and Developers

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Scrum Team

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a set of fundamental values and qualities underpinning the Scrum framework; commitment, focus, openness, respect and courage

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Scrum Values

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This means teams internally decide who does what, when, and how

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Self-Managing

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Scrum Event that is time-boxed to one month or less, that serves as a container for the other Scrum events and activities

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Sprint

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Scrum Artifact that provides an overview of the development work to realize a Sprint’s goal, typically a forecast of functionality and the work needed to deliver that functionality

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Sprint Backlog

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a short expression of the purpose of a Sprint, often a business problem that is addressed

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Sprint Goal

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Scrum Event that is time-boxed to 8 hours, or less, to start a Sprint

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Sprint Planning

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Scrum Event that is set to a time-box of 3 hours, or less, to end a Sprint

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Sprint Retrospective

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Scrum Event that is set to a time-boxed of 4 hours, or less, to conclude the development work of a Sprint

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Sprint Review

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a person external to the Scrum Team with a specific interest in and knowledge of a product that is required for incremental discovery

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Stakeholder

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the typically unpredictable overhead of maintaining the product, often caused by less than ideal design decisions, contributing to the total cost of ownership

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Technical Debt

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an optional, but often used, indication of the amount of Product Backlog turned into an Increment of product during a Sprint by a Scrum Team, tracked by the Developers for use within the Scrum Team

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Velocity

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commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect are what?

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values