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ACP
Agile Certified Practitioner
Active Listening
Focuses on understanding what is said and provides
... [Show More] feedback to confirm understanding. Involves: Listening, Understanding, Retaining, Actively Responding.
Affinity Estimation
Technique to rapidly place user stories into similarly-sized groups.
Agile Manifesto
Four statements of the values of Agile philosophy
Agile Modeling
A representation of the workflow of a process or system that the team can review before it is implemented in code. Stakeholders should be able to understand it.
Agile Space
Work area that encourages collaboration, communication, transparency and visibility
Agile Tooling
Software or artifacts that increase the sense of team and encourage participation among members (could be version control SF or video conferencing)
Analysis
Developing an understanding of potential solutions by studying the problem and underlying need
Artifact
The output of a process or work, typically a document, drawing, model, or code.
Brainstorming
Method of gathering ideas from a group - elicit a large number of ideas in a short time.
Burn-Down Chart
A chart used to communicate progress during and at the end of an iteration (# of stories completed/remaining)
Burn Rate
The cost of Agile work - the rate that the team consumes resources; cost per iteration.
Burn-Up Chart
Chart that shows completed functionality over time. Progress trends up as stories are completed (value accumulated). Does not show work-in-progress, so it is not an accurate way to predict end of project
Ceremony
A regular meeting held during an Agile project, since as iteration planning, daily stand-up, iteration review, and iteration retrospective
Change
In Agile, this refers to changing requirements that provide additional value to the customer
Charter
Document that formally begins the project - created during initiation and include the project's justification, a summary level budget, major milestones, critical success factors, constraints, assumptions, and authorization to do it.
Chicken
Someone in an Agile project who is involved but not committed
Coach
XP - role that keeps the team focused on learning and the process (delivering value while learning)
Collaboration
Working together toward a common goal.
Collective Code Ownership
Environment where the entire team is collectively responsible for 100% of code (all members of team can cross maintain code) - discourages specialization
Collocation
Having the entire team physically working in one room
Communication
Sharing information - in Agile, needs to be transparent and free-flowing
Command & Control
Non-Agile principle where decisions are m [Show Less]