Glossary

Agile: You work in small chunks, delivering working software that is valuable to the customer in the order the customer specifies. The value of working in an agile way is that you have the ability to change feature ranking (what you do when) fast.

Backlog: A ranked list of items that need to be completed for the product.

Burnup Chart: A chart that tracks progress towards completion.

Done: How you know a feature is complete and ready to release.

Estimate: Literally, “guess.” How long or how much you think the project will take for date and/or cost.

Estimation Quality Factor: Feedback on how good your estimates are.

Fault Feedback Ratio: The ratio of bad fixes to good fixes.

Inch-pebble: Inch-pebbles are one-to-two day tasks that ...

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