Glossary AllABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ E Emergence The process of the coming into existence or prominence of new facts or new knowledge... Learn More → Empiricism the philosophy that all knowledge originates in experience and observations. It’s a cornerstone of the... Learn More → Engineering Standards A shared set of development and technology standards that Developers apply to create releasable Increments... Learn More → Epic An Epic describes a large body of work that will be broken down into smaller... Learn More → Evidence-Based Management a framework that helps people, teams and organizations make better-informed decisions to help them achieve... Learn More → Experiment An intentional design to determine if a hypothesis is valid or not. Observations and evidence... Learn More → Explicit Policies An explicit description of various agreements that shape how the service delivery works. Policies can... Learn More → Extreme Programming Agile software development framework with an extreme focus on programming and taking engineering practices to... Learn More →