Product & Process
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Software Development small
Software development is the whole discipline of turning a need into working software and keeping it working.
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Agile Methodology medium
Agile is a set of values for planning work under uncertainty: short iterations, working software as the measure of progress, and a deliberate willingness…
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Product Management large
Product management is deciding what to build, why, and in what order, against a business goal.
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Product Discovery medium
Product discovery is the work that happens before a team commits to building: research to find a problem worth solving, and cheap experiments to find out…
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Requirements Engineering medium
Requirements engineering captures what a system must do, testably and unambiguously, before and during the build.
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Business Analysis medium
Business analysis maps how an organisation works today — its processes, the people involved, the systems and the gaps between them — before any solution…
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Stakeholder Management medium
Stakeholder management is keeping the people who can fund, block or reshape the work aligned and informed.
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Technical Writing medium
Technical writing is documentation a stranger can follow: specifications, READMEs, runbooks, architecture notes and decision records.
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Agile Software Development small
Agile software development is the values applied concretely by one engineering team: trunk-based work, small changes merged often, automated tests, a…
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Scrum (Software Development) medium
Scrum is the most common agile framework: fixed-length sprints, three defined accountabilities, four ceremonies and a backlog that is refined continuously.
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Kanban small
Kanban is flow-based delivery: a board showing the stages work passes through, a limit on how much may be in each stage at once, and a policy for what may…
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User Story small
A user story is a short statement of a need, conventionally shaped "As a role, I want something, so that a benefit", with acceptance criteria written…
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Jira & Confluence small
Jira is a work tracker: items with an owner, a status and a history, in a workflow that shows what is being worked on and what is stuck.
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Roadmapping small
A roadmap is a sequence of outcomes and themes over time, at a level of detail that stays true as the work is learned.
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Prioritization Frameworks (RICE / MoSCoW) small
A prioritization framework is a scoring aid for turning a wish list into an argued order.
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User Acceptance Testing small
User acceptance testing is the client or the intended user confirming that the built thing meets the need that was agreed.
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Estimation & Story Points small
Story points are an abstract unit for sizing work relative to other work, rather than in hours.