Glossary

Cycle Time

The time difference between start and end of a work item. A trend of cycle time helps team to assess its efficiency and identify steps of improvement.

Definition of done

The quality measure of a team’s work. TBD

Technical debt

A metaphor to represent an act of borrowing when developers choose to make certain design decisions in current circumstances to attain quick validation of assumptions/ideas with low fidelity solutions, and hence borrowing time in the exchange of certain quality attributes