Agile Glossary
Acceptance Test: A test that describes a user action scenario with a desired outcome that is used to confirm that a story is complete.
Agile Software Development: An iterative approach to software development where work is planned in timeboxed cycles based on close collaboration with a business customer.
Customer: Person with understanding of business needs and operational constraints who provides on-going guidance on priorities for a development project.
Domain Model: Information model describing the application domain that creates a shared language between business and IT.
Iteration: A single development cycle, usually one week or two weeks. Elapsed time between iteration planning sessions.
Planning Board: After iteration planning, stories are written on cards and pinned up in priority order on a board in the development area. Progress will be marked on story cards during the week and reviewed on a daily basis.
Planning Game: A planning session attended by IT and business teams, that is focussed on selecting stories for a release or iteration. The selection is based on what stories will deliver the highest value to the business given current development estimates.
Release: A deployable software package that is usually the culmination of several iteration cycles of development work. You don't have to wait to the end of an iteration to make a release.
Release Plan: An evolving roadmap of what features will be delivered to the business in the upcoming releases. Stories in the release plan have rough size estimates associated with them.
Stand-up: Daily progress meeting held in development area. Business customers are welcome to attend for information purposes.So called because all attendees remain standing to keep this meeting short.
Story: A business need from the software development. A story must be split small enough so that can be delivered in a single development iteration.
Velocity: This is the budget of story units available for planning next iteration. Velocity is based on measurements taken during previous iteration cycle. To calculate take the pile of stories completed in the iteration that has just finished and add up the total of the original story estimates.
Wiki: An editable intranet site where details of stories and tracking information may be recorded during development.