Agile Alliance Agile Glossary
Agile Alliance Agile Glossary explains the terms used in Agile software development, published by the Agile Alliance, the non-profit organization behind the Agile Manifesto. The entries run from A to V with an index at the top, and each one is a full explanation written by practitioners rather than a single line, with the reader invited to suggest revisions and new terms.
100% Free (unlimited): The glossary is open to anyone, with no account and no payment: every letter of the index and every entry under it. The Agile Alliance sells membership, which carries conferences and members-only material elsewhere on the site, but nothing in the glossary is kept behind it.
How It Helps Your Business English
The glossary holds well over a hundred entries indexed from A to V, among them acceptance test driven development, automated build, backlog, burndown chart, continuous integration, definition of done, epic, iteration, pair programming, refactoring, retrospective, scrum of scrums, story point, timebox, user story and velocity. Each entry explains what the practice is and how teams use it.
You can jump to a letter from the index at the top and read the one entry you need, which is how a glossary is used in the middle of a working day. The explanations run to a paragraph or more, so you learn what the practice actually involves and not only what the words mean, which is what you need before you take part in a planning session or a retrospective rather than sit through it.
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