What is Program Board? The Program Board is a visual summary of features or goals, deadlines and any cross-team dependencies that should be delivered by Agile Release Train. The program board is built in the Program Increment Planning session in which all ART's team plan, estimate and prioritize features.
What is Agile Release Train An Agile Release Train, or ART, is a long-lived, self-organized team that plans, commits, and executes together. Agile Release Train is a long-term team of team with a maximum size of 150 people. ART is a virtual organization of multiple teams. Ideally, 10 teams at maximum are assigned to [...]
What is SCALED AGILE FRAMEWORK? Scaled Agile Framework, or SAFe®, is a framework, which provides guidance for applying on the five core competencies. Those help organizations become a Lean Enterprise. Lean-Agile Leadership Team and Technical Agility DevOps and Release on Demand Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering Lean Portfolio Management The creator of the [...]
What is CYCLE TIME? A measure that elapses from the moment when work starts on an item until its completion. Simply to say, it is a duration between putting a card into In Progress column till Done column.
What is LEAD TIME? The Lead Time starts when the request is created and ends at its delivery. It is the total duration of the existence of a work item from creation to completion. Do not change it with effort! It is the most important indicator of how well your process works. It is [...]
What is CUMULATIVE FLOW DIAGRAM? The cumulative flow diagram (CFD) shows the progress of work items for a given time period split by a status of work items.
What is WORK IN PROGRESS LIMIT? The Work In Progress Limit (WIP limit) limits the work in progress to achieve faster delivery based on The Queuing Theory. It is usually agreed upon by the development team before work begins. WIP is supported by agile tools as well to indicate when breakage of this principle can [...]
What is QUEUING THEORY? The waiting lines theory explains why traditional development is slow and how to speed it up. Simply to say, finishing work in progress first is better than having multiple tasks open at the same time.
What is LEAN? Lean is a set of work management principles based on Japanese Management for achieving quality, speed, and customer satisfaction. Lean focuses on waste reduction, improvement, respect. There are seven fundamental principles in Lean which are very important even in Lean Software Development: Eliminate waste Build Quality In Create Knowledge Defer Commitment [...]
What is KANBAN? There are multiple meanings of the word Kanban. Originally it means "a card". To understand the process deeply, visualization and transparency are necessary. That's the reason for having everything that needs to be done placed on the card. Kanban card. In the software industry, Kanban is an agile framework for continuous [...]
Who is SCRUM MASTER? The Scrum Master is a change agent and initiates a measure for improving team efficiency. It helps the team self-organize, coaches the agile principles, values, techniques, and facilitates sessions.
Who is the PRODUCT OWNER? The Product Owner is responsible for the delivery of the product in quality and with the added value based on the customer requirements and maximizing the work of the Development Team.
Who is SCRUM TEAM? The Scrum team is a small group (mostly 3-9 people) of the champions for sustainable development practices. Ideally, they are allocated full-time to an agile project. This team is also multi-disciplined, with developers and testers or any necessary role for the completion of the product onboard.
What is PLANNING POKER in Agile? The Planning Poker is a consensus-based technique for an agile estimation that prefers a relative comparison of backlog items. Fibonacci scale or modified, the Planning Poker scale defined by Mike Cohn (Mountain Goats Software) is preferred for the estimation.
What is MINIMUM VIABLE PRODUCT (MVP)? MVP is the product, which has enough core features to be effectively deployed as soon as possible. MVP approach is used to validate the viability of the solution. In such a stage, often it is not a minimum marketable product.
What is INVEST principle in Scrum? The INVEST principle is a simple abbreviation created to remember an accepted set of criteria to assess the quality of a user story, which should be: Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small and Testable. These principles help product owners to properly specify the product backlog requirements, i.e. epics, features, [...]
What is Sprint Goal? The sprint goal is a sprint objective met through the implementation of Sprint Backlog. It is defined by the product owner but focused on iteration. It should be a business-oriented sentence. Usually multiple backlog items are necessary to be planned to the sprint to achieve the sprint goal. [...]
What is SPRINT in Scrum? The Sprint in Scrum is a period (mostly not longer than 3 weeks) during which the team produces an increment towards the product completion. The sprint backlog is completed in this period.
What is VELOCITY? Velocity represents the amount of work which the team is able to deliver within an iteration. It is used to predict when the product backlog will be completed.
What is PRODUCT INCREMENT? The Product Increment is work completed within the current and previous sprints that meet the Definition of Done. The increment should deliver value, it is not just a list of features or tasks added to the product in the latest sprint.
What is the DEFINITION OF DONE (DOD)? The Definition of Done is criteria for accepting user story as completed. It is an agreement between the team, the product owner and stakeholders. ScrumDesk supports the Definition of Done via story templates that speed-up the process of planning and make DoD consistent. [...]
What is DAILY SCRUM? The daily status is meant to quickly resolve impediments experiencing by the team. It is a short meeting in which all team members participate. The Product owner is more than welcome.
What is BURN DOWN CHART? The Burn Down chart is a graphic representation of the rate at which work is completed and how much work remains to be done. It is the primary Scrum Agile metric used for the prediction of commitment delivery. Some teams use a burndown chart to measure even mid-term plans [...]
What is KANBAN BOARD? Kanban in Japanese means "a card". Kanban board, in Agile preferably physical board, is the board with cards representing requirements or tasks used to visualize work. The Kanban board is a key to the transparency and self-organization of an Agile team. It is also used to identify blockers and understand the [...]
What is TASK BOARD? The Task board is used by individuals or teams to track the work path toward completion. It contains backlog items and usually subtasks necessary to complete to deliver backlog items. There might be more types of backlog items and subtasks. The task board represents the sprint backlog in Scrum. [...]
What is SPRINT REVIEW? During the Sprint Review, an informal session, the team, and stakeholders collaborate about what was done in the sprint in order to improve the product. With the ScrumDesk application, users can easily generate the final sprint report that can be used in the Sprint Review session.
What is SPRINT RETROSPECTIVE? The Sprint Retrospective is a regular feedback session of the scrum team at the end of the current sprint in order to improve continuously. It is led by ScrumMaster and the whole team, including the product owner, participates. ScrumDesk application supports retrospectives by 14 retrospective techniques.
What is SPRINT PLANNING? The sprint planning is a regular start point session in order to clarify the backlog items and identify the impediments and dependencies. The result of this session is the sprint kanban board that contains selected backlog items (the sprint backlog) typically broken into subtasks that might be assigned and estimated. [...]
What is USER STORY? The User story has two meanings in agile companies. Originally it is a format of requirements that answers the questions What? For Who? And Why? It is also the smallest unit of the requirement delivering a business value in an agile framework.
What is STORY MAPPING? The Story Mapping invented by Jeff Patton is a way to envisage the entire product or service backlog as a series of user activities in rough order of priority. ScrumDesk is one of few tools supporting this method in the STORY MAP module.