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Documentation of the (technological) requirements for the project, definition of agreed dates and deadlines, including their optimisation and monitoring.

Documentation of the (technological) requirements for the project, definition of agreed dates and deadlines, including their optimisation. The monitoring of deadline adherence is also often defined as a function of time scheduling.

Represent activity(ies) or value(s) and are designed to ensure that key information is made transparent. Each artifact includes a Commitment that provides information in a clear and concise way to visualise progress.
This includes for the

• Product Backlog the Product Goal.
• Sprint Backlog the Sprint Goal.
• Increment the Definition of Done.

Creates an agile environment within the company and thereby enables Scrum. As a contact person for the Developers, his responsibilities include:

• Coaching team members to work in a self-managed and cross-functional way.
• Supporting the Scrum team in producing Increments that meet the Definition of Done and that add value to the final product.
• If the Scrum Team is hampered, removing the impediments.
• Responsible for ensuring Scrum events are held in a way that is positive, productive and within the time box.

• Product Owner
• Scrum Master
• Developers

Small team of people with no sub-teams or hierarchies.
Consisting of

• one Scrum Master,
• one Product Owner, and
• Developers, generally
• 10 or fewer people.

• cross-functional, and
• self-managing.

Five values in Scrum that the whole team shares.

• Commitment
  to the rules of Scrum.
• Focus
  on the task(s) at hand.
• Openness
  to new things and to other team colleagues.
• Respect
  all project participants.
• Courage
  to stand by the values and to interact with each other in an open and honest way.

Scrum is a framework that originated in agile software development, but is now used to develop a wide variety of products. Specific for Scrum is the incremental approach to continuously generate added value by using recurring quality assurance measures as monitoring and control mechanisms during the whole project life-cycle.

Communications theory, stating that all communications comprise messages being sent and received. This model proposes that it is impossible not to communicate – breaking off communication or refusing to communicate also sends out a signal.

• Responsibility of the sender:
  Ensures (by asking the recipient) that the message has been properly received (repeat if necessary).

• Responsibility of the recipient:
  Ensures correct understanding of the message (either by repeating the message in own words or by asking the sender what is meant).

In a network diagram: the time differential between the specified completion date of a task and the date required to meet the critical path. Slack time can be needed for technological reasons or to provide reserve time.

Soft skills are personal attributes (e.g. human/ social/ communication skills, attitudes, mindsets) that enable people to navigate their environment or work well with others to achieve their goals.

Detailed (operational, technical) description of the product's characteristics. Ensures that project outcomes (goals) are determined before the project is carried out.

A list of the quantities of materials or standard components that are required for a project and can be quantified in terms of time or costs.

A person or entity which donates funds or payment in kind for advertising purposes (e.g. to a sports club). In the USA, it is also used to describe the person funding a project.

A generic term for the organisation, authority, association etc. that commissions, finances and defines a project's objectives. Synonym: project sponsor

A Sprint is a time-boxed iteration within which the Scrum events (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective) take place and the Product Owner's ideas are transformed into valuable results (= Increments). A Sprint lasts a month or less and a new Sprint starts directly after the previous Sprint has been completed.

The Sprint Backlog is a backlog of tasks or activities which are going to be carried out in the upcoming Sprint. The Commitment of the Sprint Backlog is the Sprint Goal.

Sprint tracking tool for graphical analysis of the sprint process.

The Sprint Planning Meeting is the initiation of the following Sprint. During this meeting, the work to be done during this Sprint is determined. At the end there will be a plan that has been created by the whole Scrum Team.
Topics covered:

• Why is this Sprint valuable?
• What can be achieved in this Sprint?
• How should the selected tasks be completed?

Opportunity for Developers to improve productivity and processes in a Sprint, usually held after the Sprint Review.

Collaborative meeting for inspecting the outcome of the Sprint and determining future adaptations. The Scrum Team presents the achieved work to key stakeholders and progress toward the Product Goal is discussed.

A legal or natural person with a vested interest in the project or its outcome. (See project team members)

Systematic documentation of the interests and intervention powers of all stakeholders, their classification in a stakeholder portfolio (e.g. according to influence or degree affected) and the definition of measures for interactions with stakeholders (e.g. communication, information, integration in the project team or the steering committee). Method for analysing and visualising the stakeholders' influence on the project. Stakeholders can classified in a matrix which measures the impact of the project on them and their influence on the project's success.

The application of management methods for a correct handling of stakeholders.

An individual or community of interest that has or could have an impact on the project as well as all people, organisations, etc. which are involved or affected by the project.

A network diagram which can be used for several (similar) projects.

A work breakdown structure which can be used for several (similar) projects.

A term describing two different, but related, terms:

1. All standards, rules and guidelines (some external) valid for a specific field of activity.
2. All work methods, document templates, values etc. that apply within a specific field of activity.

Committee with authorised members to which project representatives report. Its members can be the customer, investor(s), representatives of official bodies and public agencies. Some organisations differentiate between two kinds of steering committee: one as the project sponsor's internal committee and the other as a committee that also has external partners as members. The number of steering committee members should be kept to the minimum. It serves as a reporting, decision-making and escalation body for the project manager.

Stress Management is a collective term for the methods applied to manage stress.

The establishment of classification systems for products, processes, resources, costs etc. The majority of these are classified in the work breakdown structure, which also enables project definition.

Person responsible for a sub-project, he is part of the project management team.

A group of related work packages in the work breakdown structure. Sub-tasks can be defined at several levels, whereby each higher-level sub-task comprises a group of related sub-tasks at the next lower level. A task in the work breakdown structure that can be further sub-divided.

The supplier's strategy for implementing the customer specification. In most cases, the supplier specification is agreed between the customer and the project (manager), though it is often simply one of the contractor's internal documents.

All preparatory and support processes, particularly the supply of materials and equipment, that are necessary for project implementation.

Integral, systematic list of project objectives and their interrelationships.