Category: Glossary

External Stakeholders | Glossary

Karan Negi Leave a comment

Definition

Stakeholders in Agile Projects, carry broadly the same definition as they do in Non-Agile Projects. They are parties who are impacted by the status of the Project. They can be both External (Shareholders, Investors) and Internal (Employees, Partners) in nature.

The key difference in Stakeholders in Agile Projects is that they are represented by one Product Owner, and the role is scalable as per the needs of the Project.

Further Reading

  • “Agile Project Management” (book), by Jim Highsmith

 

Defect | Glossary

Karan Negi Leave a comment

Definition

A ‘Defect’ is an error, flaw, failure or discrepancy in a computer program, that is usually caused by people in either a program’s source code, design, frameworks or operating system. It is an important priority to be managed in an Agile Environment.

Defect Management is not always a very concrete or defined process.In Scrum for example, there is no direct guideline in how to manage Defects. The standard answer is to treat Defects as Product Backlog items which are to be picked up by the Development Team in the next Sprint, when the priority is set high enough.

Further Reading

  • “Object-oriented defect management of software”(book), by Houman Younessi