The Scrum Glossary

a

• Abnormal Termination
• Acceptance Criteria
• Acceptance-Based Story
• Actionable Story
• Agile Analysis
• Agility
• Agreement
• Agreement-Based Planning
• Analysis Story
• Architecturally Significant Story
• Architecture

b

• Back Burner
• Backlog
• Backlog Item
• Backlog Maintenance
• Backlog Refinement
• Bug
• BuildUp
• BurnDown
• BurnUp
• Business Owner
• Business Value

c

• Cancelling a Sprint
• Capability
• Capacity
• Checklist Item BuildUp
• Chore
• Clean Code
• CleanUp Stories
• CleanUp Story
• Code Complete
• Coding Story
• Commitment
• Coordination Team
• Coordinator
• Cross-Functional Team

d

• Daily Scrum
• Defect
• Definition of Done (DoD)
• Definition of Ready (DoR)
• Developer
• Development Team
• DoD
• Done
• Done Increment
• Doneness Agreement
• Due Diligence

e

• EffortPoint
• Empirical Process
• Environmental Variables
• Epic
• Estimation Game
• Executive Review
• Exemplar Story
• Exploring Scrum
• eXtreme Programming (XP)

f

• Feature
• Feature Complete
• Forecast
• Freezer
• Fridge
• Front Burner

g

• General Agreement
• Glossary of Scrum Terms
• Grooming

i

• Ideal Effort
• Ideal Engineering Hour/Day
• Impediment
• InBox
• Interested Bystander
• Intraspective
• Intrinsic Difficulty
• Item

k

• Kanban
• Kanban(ish) Variant

l

• Leadership Team
• Lean Principles

m

• Mental Agility
• Monitoring Sprint Progress

o

• Order
• Organizational Noise

p

• Pairing
• Physical Agility
• PlaceHolder Stories
• PlaceHolder Story
• Plan of Action
• Planning Day
• Potentially Releasable Increment
• Potentially Shippable Increment
• Priority
• Product
• Product Backlog
• Product Backlog Item
• Product Owner
• Product Owner Team
• Product Review
• Product Vision
• Project Review

q

• Quality Code

r

• Ready Story
• Refactoring
• Refinement
• Release
• Release Sprint
• Release Strategy
• Results
• Retrospective

s

• Scenario
• Scrum
• Scrum Board
• Scrum in a Nutshell
• Scrum Team
• Scrum Values
• ScrumMaster
• ScrumMaster Community
• Self-Contained
• Self-Organization
• Single Item Flow
• SME
• SME Availability
• Spike
• Sprint
• Sprint Backlog
• Sprint Commitment
• Sprint Goal
• Sprint Planning
• Sprint Retrospective
• Sprint Review
• Sprint Team
• Stakeholder
• Startup Sprint
• Story
• Story Agreement
• Story Board
• Story Owner
• Story Size
• Story Time
• Storyotype
• StoryPoint
• Strategic Agility
• Subject Matter Expert (SME)
• Sustainable Pace
• Swarm
• Swarmer

t

• Tactical Agility
• Team
• Team Ability
• Team Member
• Team Retrospective
• Team Swarm
• Team Values
• TeamLet
• Technical Debt
• The Daily Scrum
• Time-Boxed Story

u

• Use Case
• User Story

v

• Validation
• Values
• Velocity
• Verification

w

• Walking Skeleton
• Well-Defined Story
• Well-Formed Team
• WIBNI
• Work in Progress
• Work Results
• WorkRate

x

• XP