Agendashift
The Right Answer Nobody Ordered
Agile
Responding to Change Over Following a Plan (The Plan Was to Follow the Plan)
Agile Coach
A Fish That Was Technically a Boat
Artifact
A Document Renamed to Sound Archaeological
Backlog
An Infinite List of Things Nobody Will Build
Backlog Refinement
Grooming, But We Don't Call It That Anymore
Big Room Planning
The Room That Worked Best When It Was Empty
Burndown Chart
The Chart That Burns Sideways
Ceremony
A Meeting That Became Sacred by Being Renamed
Daily Standup
A Status Meeting Performed Vertically
Definition of Done
A Checklist Redefined Every Time Someone Ships Something That Wasn't
Enterprise Agility
The Book That Distinguished "Doing Agile" From "Being Agile" and Was Punished for Its Clarity
Epic
A Project, But We Can't Call It That
Grooming
The Word So Unfortunate They Had to Rename It
Kanban
The Board That Replaced the Process, Then Became the Process
Lean
The Philosophy That Worked Until It Became a Brand
MVP
Minimum Viable Product, Maximum Viable Excuse
Product Owner
Three Days of Training to Conflict with Three People on the Org Chart
Retrospective
Group Therapy With Sticky Notes
SAFe
Scaled Agile Framework, or The Enterprise Strikes Back
Scrum
A Framework for Meetings About Work Instead of Work
Scrum Master
A Servant Leader Who Serves Primarily the Scrum Guide
Spike
Research Disguised as a Ticket So It Fits on the Board
Sprint
Two Weeks to Do What Takes Three, Reported as One
Sprint Planning
Planning the Plan to Plan
Story Points
The Unit of Measurement That Measures Nothing
The Agile Coach
A Fish That Was Technically a Boat
The Artifact
A Document Renamed to Sound Archaeological
The Backlog
An Infinite List of Things Nobody Will Build
The Burndown Chart
The Chart That Burns Sideways
The Ceremony
A Meeting That Became Sacred by Being Renamed
The Daily Standup
A Status Meeting Performed Vertically
The Epic
A Project, But We Can't Call It That
The Goal
A Novel About Throughput That Became the Throughput of Novels
The Lean Startup
Build-Measure-Learn (Emphasis on Build, Skip Measure, Forget Learn)
The Phoenix Project
s/factory/IT department/g
The Product Owner
Three Days of Training to Conflict with Three People on the Org Chart
The Retrospective
Group Therapy With Sticky Notes
The Scrum Master
A Servant Leader Who Serves Primarily the Scrum Guide
The Spike
Research Disguised as a Ticket So It Fits on the Board
The Spotify Model
Squads, Tribes, and Guilds for Twelve People
The Sprint
Two Weeks to Do What Takes Three, Reported as One
The Unicorn Project
s/Brent/developer experience/g
The User Story
As a Reader, I Want a Shorter Article, So That I Can Get Back to Work
User Story
As a Reader, I Want a Shorter Article, So That I Can Get Back to Work
WIP Limits
The Rule Everyone Sets and Nobody Follows