100 Plus Agile Terms – A Comprehensive List

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Agile has been a hot topic in the industry. Many companies are converting their work teams into agile – some others, especially the big enterprises with decades of experience in waterfall model are choosing to be hybrid, experimenting stuffs. Google is a hundred percent agile company. In this article I have collected over hundred agile terms worth knowing if you are planning to shift to the Agile paradigm. This is just a list, you can Google the terms to find their meanings (although I plan to have another article sometimes later explaining these terms.)

I have worked on the Waterfall Model for over five years now as a software engineer in Java/J2EE platform, and I have been recently assigned to work on an agile team. This is the first time I will have a real experience of working in an agile environment. I have taken few agile workshops and agile training in the past, I hope those will be helpful.

So here goes the comprehensive list of agile terms. I plan to add more as I discover these terminologies. Keep coming back.

1. 3 Amigos (Analyst, Tester and Developer)
2. Acceptance Criteria
3. Acceptance Test Driven Development ATDD
4. Acceptance Testing
5. Agile
6. Agile Development Life Cycle Management
7. Agile Manifesto
8. Anti-Pattern
9. Backlog
10. Backlog Item
11. Behaviour Driven Development BDD
12. Burndown
13. Business Value Add
14. Chicken 
15. Collocation
16. Configuration Management
17. Continous Integration
18. Cross-Functional Team
19. Cycle Time
20. Daily Scrum
21. Design Pattern
22. Done
23. Emergence
24. Empiricism
25. Enterprise Agile
26. Epic
27. Estimation
28. Extreme Programming XP
29. Feature Driven Development FDD
30. Fibonacci Sequence Estimation
31. Flow
32. How
33. Impediment
34. Impediment Backlog
35. Inspectig and Adapting
36. INVEST model
37. Iteration
38. Just In Time
39. Kaizen
40. Kanban
41. Key Agile Principles
42. Lean
43. Muda
44. Multi-state Continuous Integration
45. Nine-Box Interview Technique
46. Non Value Add
47. One Piece Flow
48. Pair Programming
49. Pairing
50. Parallel Development
51. Pig
52. Planning
53. Planning Poker
54. Process
55. Product Backlog
56. Product Backlog Item
57. Product Owner
58. Pull
59. Push
60. Release Burn down Chart
61. Release Plan
62. Release Process
63. Retrospective
64. Roman Vote
65. SCM Tools
66. Scrum
67. Scrum Master
68. Scrum Meetings
69. Scrum Roles
70. Self Organization
71. Software Change Configuration Management
72. Software Configuration Management
73. Software Development
74. Software Development Process
75. Source Code Control
76. Source Code Management
77. Spike
78. Sprint
79. Sprint Burn down
80. Sprint Goal
81. Sprint Planning
82. Sprint Review
83. Sprint Task
84. Stakeholder
85. Stand-Up
86. Story
87. Story Point
88. Task
89. Task Board
90. Task List
91. Team
92. Team Member
93. Test Driven Development TDD
94. Theory of Constraints
95. Throughput
96. Thumb Vote
97. Timeboxing
98. U-Shaped Cells
99. Unit Testing
100. User Stories
101. VOC – Voice of the customer
102. Value Stream
103. Value Stream Mapping
104. Velocity
105. Vision Statement
106. WIP – Work In Progress
107. Waste
108. What
109. Whole Teams
110. Work Cells
111. XP – Extreme Programming
112. XP Practices

Originally posted 2012-01-21 14:23:32.

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