By understanding and using these terms effectively, Product Owners can communicate more clearly with their teams and stakeholders and better manage the development process.
- Acceptance criteria: The specific conditions that must be met in order for a user story to be considered complete.
- Agile: A methodology used for software development that emphasizes flexibility, collaboration, and customer satisfaction.
- Agile manifesto: A set of guiding values and principles for Agile software development, emphasizing customer collaboration, working software, and flexibility.
- Backlog: A prioritized list of items (usually user stories) that need to be completed in order to achieve the product vision.
- Business value: The benefit or return on investment (ROI) that a product or feature provides to the business.
- Continuous Integration (CI): A development practice that involves regularly integrating code changes into a shared repository, enabling rapid testing and feedback.
- Customer: The end-user of the product or service.
- Definition of Done: A shared understanding among the team of what it means for a user story or feature to be considered complete.
- Design thinking: A problem-solving approach that involves empathizing with users, defining the problem, ideating potential solutions, prototyping and testing.
- Epics: Large, high-level user stories that typically require multiple sprints to complete.
- Iteration: A cycle of development that includes planning, executing, and reviewing work.
- Minimum Viable Product (MVP): A basic version of a product that includes only the essential features needed to provide value to the customer.
- Product Backlog Refinement: A process in which the Product Owner and development team review and prioritize items in the backlog.
- Product Manager: The person responsible for developing and executing the product strategy.
- Product Owner: The person responsible for defining the product vision, creating and prioritizing the product backlog, and ensuring that the team is delivering business value.
- Product vision: A high-level statement that describes the purpose, value, and direction of a product.
- Retrospective: A regular team meeting held at the end of each sprint to review the previous sprint and identify areas for improvement.
- Roadmap: A visual representation of the product strategy and planned development over time.
- Scrum: A framework used in Agile development that includes iterative sprints, daily stand-up meetings, and regular reviews and retrospectives.
- Scrum Master: The person responsible for facilitating the Scrum framework and ensuring that the team is following Agile principles.
- Sprint: A time-boxed period of development that typically lasts 1-4 weeks.
- Sprint backlog: A list of items from the product backlog that the team plans to complete during a specific sprint.
- Sprint planning: A meeting held at the beginning of each sprint to plan and prioritize work.
- Stakeholder: Anyone who has an interest or influence in the product, including customers, users, investors, and executives.
- User experience (UX): The overall experience that a user has when interacting with a product, including usability, functionality, and design.
- User interface (UI): The visual and interactive elements of a product that enable users to interact with it.
- User research: The process of gathering information and feedback from users in order to improve the product.
- User stories: Short, simple descriptions of a feature or requirement from the perspective of the customer.
- Velocity: A measure of the amount of work a team can complete in a single sprint, used to help with capacity planning and backlog prioritization.
- Wireframe: A visual representation of the layout and structure of a product or feature, typically created before the design stage.