Agile Encyclopedia
Every Agile term, defined properly.
The Agile Encyclopedia is a plain language reference for the words Agile teams actually use at work. Each entry gives you a one sentence definition, where the term comes from, and what it looks like when a real team does it.
What are you trying to look up?
Terms are grouped by the kind of thing they are. A ceremony is a meeting, an artifact is something the team keeps, a metric is something you can count. Each group opens once it has entries behind it.
Ceremonies
Roles
Artifacts
Frameworks
Metrics
Engineering practices
Estimation
Scaling
Agile Fundamentals
Scrum
Kanban
Lean
Extreme Programming
Planning
Backlog management
Testing and quality
DevOps
Team health
Agile Leadership
Glossary
Agile terms from A to Z
Every definition below is written to be read on its own. Each one gets a full entry covering where the term came from, how teams get it wrong, and the playbook that puts it to work. Agile is the first entry. The rest arrive letter by letter, and a letter only becomes clickable once it has something behind it.
Which terms do people mix up?
These six pairs cause most of the arguments. Each comparison sets out what the two terms share, where they part company, and which one your situation calls for.
Now do something with it
A definition tells you what a word means. A playbook tells you what to do on Monday morning. Every entry in the encyclopedia links to the playbook that puts it to work.