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Agile
Agile is an approach to product development that delivers work in short increments and re-plans as it learns, instead of committing to a full specification up front.
Agile is a family of practices — scrum, kanban, XP and others — sharing one bet: that requirements change during the work, so short feedback loops beat long plans. The 2001 manifesto is four preferences, not a process, which is why 'doing agile' looks different in every company that claims it.
The practical test of whether a team is agile is not whether it holds ceremonies but whether the plan changes in response to what shipped. Sprints with no working increment to inspect, and retrospectives that change nothing, are waterfall with more meetings.
In Flocci Projects
Flocci Projects implements the scrum-shaped subset: backlog, sprints with goals and dates, story points and velocity, plus a kanban board for flow.
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- Backlog refinement
- Blocker
- Burndown chart
- Burnup chart
- Cycle time
- Daily standup
- Definition of done
- Definition of ready
- Epic
- Kanban
- Lead time
- Planning poker
- Product backlog
- Product owner
- Retrospective
- Scrum
- Scrum master
- Sprint
- Sprint goal
- Sprint planning
- Sprint review
- Story point
- Swimlane
- Throughput
- User story
- Velocity
- WIP limit