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===Acceptance Criteria=== | ===Acceptance Criteria=== | ||
Verifiable work products or achievements that together are necessary and sufficient to implement a User Story. | Verifiable work products, conditions, or achievements that together are necessary and sufficient to implement a User Story. | ||
===Backlog=== | ===Backlog=== | ||
The set of Epics and User Stories that have been defined, driven by the team's Initiatives. | The set of Epics and User Stories that have been defined, driven by the team's Initiatives. | ||
===Definition of Done=== | |||
General criteria that User Stories must meet in order to be considered "done", in addition to any Acceptance Criteria specific to the user story. The definition of done is created and committed to by the whole team. | |||
===Deliverable=== | ===Deliverable=== | ||
A tangible work product completed | A tangible work product completed within a quarter (3 months) in support of an Initiative. | ||
===Durable Team=== | ===Durable Team=== | ||
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===Epic=== | ===Epic=== | ||
A large-scale User Story that takes more than one Sprint to complete. An epic should be decomposed into User Stories that do fit within a Sprint | A large-scale User Story that takes more than one Sprint to complete. An epic should be decomposed into User Stories that do fit within a Sprint. | ||
===Initiative=== | ===Initiative=== | ||
A priority area of investment with a specific audience, which affects a KPI and will require a minimum of 6 months to complete. | A priority area of investment with a specific audience, which affects a KPI and will require a minimum of 6 months to complete. | ||
===KPI | ===KPI=== | ||
'''K'''ey '''P'''erformance '''I'''ndicator, a metric that indicates how well the team is achieving its mission. | |||
===Maker=== | ===Maker=== | ||
[Role] A team member who executes Tasks, collaborates with the Product Owner on vision and priorities, and decides what work gets done and when. While all team members have specialized skills, in theory, any maker can take on any Task. | [Role] A team member who executes Tasks, collaborates with the Product Owner on vision and priorities, and decides what work gets done and when. While all team members have specialized skills, in theory, any maker can take on any Task. | ||
===Mid-sprint review=== | |||
[Meeting] This brief meeting is a process check on how the sprint is going, adjustments that need to be made immediately, and progress toward completing committed user stories for the sprint. It is held near the middle of the sprint. | |||
===Product Owner=== | ===Product Owner=== | ||
[Role] The person ultimately responsible for the product being worked on. This role creates the product vision, approves works, and communicates with stakeholders. | [Role] The person ultimately responsible for the product being worked on. This role creates the product vision, approves works, and communicates with stakeholders. | ||
===Retrospective=== | |||
[Meeting] Held at the end of a Sprint, this meeting is an opportunity for team members to reflect on and improve their processes. Attendance is limited to '''core team members only''' in order to create a safe space for frank discussion. | |||
During the meeting, members should consider: | |||
* What should we '''start''' doing? | |||
* What should we '''stop''' doing? | |||
* What should we '''change''' how we're doing something? | |||
===Scrum Master=== | ===Scrum Master=== | ||
[Role] A project manager who drives projects, manages the team's process, removes blockers, and facilitates meetings. | [Role] A project manager who drives projects, manages the team's process, removes blockers, and facilitates meetings. Also called an "agile coach". | ||
===Sprint=== | ===Sprint=== | ||
A set period of time designated to achieve a body of work. Currently, | A set period of time designated to achieve a body of work. Currently, the MDN team uses sprints on a 3-week schedule, with 12 days of sprint work time, and 3 days for review of the past sprint, planning of the next sprint, and miscellaneous non-sprint activity. | ||
===Sprint Planning Meeting=== | |||
[Meeting] A meeting in which the team finalizes selection of User Stories for a Sprint, and reviews them to ensure that the Acceptance Criteria and Tasks are well-defined and well-scoped. Committed user stories for each team for each sprint are shared with the broader Marketing team. | |||
===Sprint Review=== | |||
[Meeting] Also called a "Sprint Demo", this meeting is a chance for teams to ''demonstrate completed work'' at the end of a Sprint. All Marketing Durable Teams share their work in a single review meeting, to share and celebrate everyone's work. Demos are informal, and slide presentations are discouraged. A team's demo need not cover all User Stories completed during a Sprint, but should highlight significant achievements and big wins. | |||
=== | ===Standup=== | ||
[Meeting] Typically, this is a brief (15-minute) meeting that happens daily during the "work" days of a Sprint, in which team members discuss what they've done, what they plan to do, and anything blocking their work. Questions or discussions should be taken offline out of the meeting. | |||
===Task=== | ===Task=== | ||
A chunk of work needed to deliver the Acceptance Criteria of a User Story. Tasks should be defined to take about a day to complete. Tasks that require more than a day or so may need to be divided into smaller tasks. | A chunk of work needed to deliver the Acceptance Criteria of a User Story. Tasks should be defined to take about a day to complete. Tasks that require more than a day or so may need to be divided into smaller tasks. The entire team is involved in defining tasks. | ||
===Task Board=== | ===Task Board=== | ||
A visual representation of the team's work plan and status for a Sprint. Also called a Sprint Board. | A visual representation of the team's work plan and status for a Sprint. Also called a Sprint Board. | ||
The MDN durable team uses [https:// | The MDN durable team uses [https://app.zenhub.com ZenHub] for its task board; there is a browser extension that enables viewing the task board, and using related features, while working in the GitHub web UI. | ||
===User Story=== | ===User Story=== | ||
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: As a (role), I want to (activity), so I can (goal). | : As a (role), I want to (activity), so I can (goal). | ||
One exception is when the team does not have enough information to formulate a user story in this format. These are designated by "[Research]" in the description, and should have Acceptance Criteria that will enable creating future user stories in the canonical format. | One exception is when the team does not have enough information to formulate or estimate a user story in this format. These are designated by "[Research]" in the description, and should have Acceptance Criteria that will enable creating future user stories in the canonical format. (In the Extreme Programming methodology, such an item is limited to a task, not a user story, and is referred to as a [http://agiledictionary.com/209/spike/ Spike].) | ||