Product Goal
The 2020 Scrum Guide introduced the product goal. It is one of three commitments associated with scrum artifacts and is the commitment for the Product Backlog artifact. “A product is the vehicle to...
View ArticleStory Splitting
The process of breaking user stories down into (a) smaller, more easily implemented user stories or (b) tasks. Likewise, epics may be decomposed into user stories, and tasks may be decomposed into more...
View ArticleSystem
According to Wikipedia: A system is a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole. A system, surrounded and influenced by its environment,...
View ArticleSystems Thinking
Understanding system thinking is understanding a system, everyone, and everything that helps create, grow, and maintain that system. The system can include people, organizational design, physical and...
View ArticleScrum Artifacts
Scrum’s artifacts are listed in the 2020 Scrum Guide. They represent the work the team does and the business value of the product. Each artifact contains a commitment with enough information that the...
View ArticleSprint Goal
The sprint goal is the commitment associated with the sprint backlog. The sprint backlog is one of the scrum artifacts listed in the 2020 Scrum Guide. The developers review the backlog and priorities...
View ArticleFeature Team
A feature team is a team that can work across multiple parts of technology stack in order to get features done without depending on other teams. A common scenario would be a website that has back-end...
View ArticleComponent Team
A component team is a team that is specialized to work on a single part of a larger system. A common scenario would be a website that has back-end code that runs on the server and front-end code that...
View ArticleProduct Discovery
Product discovery is the iterative work of figuring what will make a product usable, useful, valuable, and implementable.
View ArticleCognitive Bias
A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of irrationality. Cognitive biases can lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate thinking, illogical interpretation, and poor decisions. Because cognitive...
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