Vocabulary C

Question 0

On agile projects, this most often refers to changing requirements. Agile embraces changing requirements, even if they occur later in the project, viewing it as a competitive advantage the team can give to the customer

Answer 0

Change

Question 1

A regular meeting on an agile project such as iteration planning meeting, the daily stand up, an iteration review, and the iteration retrospective.

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Ceremony

Question 2

The document that formally begins the project. Charters are created in the project initiation, and they include the projects justification, a summary level budget, the major milestones, critical success factors, constraints, assumptions, and authorization for the team to begin working.

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Charter

Question 3

Someone on an agile project who is involved but not committed. Chickens should not be part of the core project team but may have input.

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Chicken

Question 4

In the extreme programming methodology, the coach is the person who keeps the team focused on learning and the XP processes. The coach embodies the XP values and will help the team deliver value while improving.

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Coach

Question 5

Working together toward a common goal.

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Collaboration

Question 6

An environment where the entire team is collectively responsible for 100% of the code. This means that each member of the team is cross capable of maintaining everyone else’s code. Collective Code Ownership discourages specialization and the formation of silos.

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Collective code ownership

Question 7

A non-agile principle where decisions are made by individuals higher up on the organizational chart and are handed down to the team.

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Command and Control

Question 8

Information shared. On Agile teams, communication should be transparent and free-flowing. The entire team should have a strong sense of what is occurring with all aspects of their project.

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Communication

Question 9

Meeting a regulation. Compliance is one justification for a project to be initiated.

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Compliance

Question 10

Creating an environment free of distractions and interruptions for one or more team members.

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Cone of Silence

Question 11

A term describing the difficulty of estimating early due to unknowns and how that should improve over time. The cone of uncertainty indicates that the ability to estimate should get more accurate if estimates are given shortly before the work is performed.

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Cone of Uncertainty

Question 12

Areas of disagreement on the team. Some conflict is healthy and encouraged on Agile projects, as it can lead to process improvement and a higher quality product.

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Conflict

Question 13

Working to come to an acceptable agreement when areas of conflict arise.

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Conflict Resolution

Question 14

The practice of regularly checking in each team member’s work and building and testing the entire system. The most rigorous methodologies do this daily with the goal of quickly catching systematic errors that may have been introduced.

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Continuous Integration

Question 15

Team members orchestrating their work together with the goal of higher productivity and teamwork.

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Coordination

Question 16

A chart that is part of an information radiator that shows future backlog, work in progress and completed features overtime.

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Cumulative Flow Diagram

Question 17

The actual customer or the representative who will define and prioritize business value. The customer participate as part of the Agile team.

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Customer

Question 18

The amount of time needed to complete a feature or user story.

Answer 18

Cycle Time