Vocabulary D

Question 0

The agile practice, particularly embodied in Lean, that seems to postpone decisions as long as it is responsible to reserve all possible avenues and make the decision with as many “knowns” as possible.

Answer 0

Decide as late as possible

Question 1

A brief meeting, usually held at the start of the day, where the entire team attends and participates by briefly answering three questions: “what did you accomplish yesterday?”, “what do you plan to do today ?”, and “are you encountering any obstacles?” Daily stand ups are important to the flow of communication and to the early direct detection of any issues. Most methodologies keep these meetings to 15 minutes in length.

Answer 1

Daily Stand-up Meeting

Question 2

An acronym describing desirable attributes of a product backlog. It stands for (D)etailed appropriately, (E)stimatable, (E)mergent, (P)rioritized.

Answer 2

DEEP

Question 3

Breaking down epics or larger stories into smaller user stories. Disaggregation is similar to decomposition on traditional projects

Answer 3

Disaggregation

Question 4

Something the Agile manifesto values less than working software. Agile practitioners generally viewed the right level of documentation as being “barely sufficient.”

Answer 4

Documentation

Question 5

An acronym for “don’t repeat yourself.” DRY underscores the need to maximize the work not done. For example, the statement “this module is not very DRY,” would indicate that the code re-creates or repeats work already done instead of leveraging it.

Answer 5

DRY