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Scope

What is included as part of an endeavour, or a solution (in scope) as opposed...

Scrum Board

A physical board to visualize information for and by the Scrum Team, often used to...

Scrum Guide

The definition of Scrum, written and provided by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, co-creators of...

Scrum Master

Accountability within a Scrum Team focussed on guiding, coaching, teaching and assisting a Scrum Team...

Scrum Team

A self-managing team consisting of one Scrum Master, one Product Owner, and Developers.

Scrum Values

A set of fundamental values and qualities underpinning the Scrum framework; commitment, focus, openness, respect...

Self-Managing

Scrum Teams are cross-functional, meaning the members have all the skills necessary to create value...

Service Level Expectation

The SLE is a forecast of how long it should take a single work item...

Spike

A timeboxed activity that is carried out in order to deepen an understanding of...

Sprint Backlog

Scrum Artifact that provides an overview of the development work to realise a Sprint’s goal,...

Sprint Goal

A short expression of the purpose of a Sprint, often a business problem that is...

Sprint Planning

Scrum event that is timeboxed to 8 hours, to start a Sprint. It serves for...

Sprint Retrospective

Scrum event that is set to a timebox of 3 hours, or less, to end...

Sprint Review

Scrum event that is set to a timeboxed of 4 hours, to conclude the development...

Stakeholder

A person external to the Scrum Team with a specific interest in and knowledge of...

STATIK

An acronym for the Systems Thinking Approach to Introducing Kanban, a recommended approach to introducing...

Story Mapping

Story mapping consists of ordering user stories along two independent dimensions based on the order...

Swarming

The act of having multiple team members focus on the same work item to ensure...

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