Scrum Glossary in ZenTao

ZenTao is a management tool designed for Agile methodology, Scrum especially. You might be wondering whether you have to adopt Agile methodology if you want to use ZenTao. The answer is NO. You can do Waterfall using ZenTao and you will do it quite well. Considering that users might use different methodologies, we adopt more neutral concepts instead of concepts in Scrum.

ZenTao Glossary

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Acceptance

It is a set of descriptions that is done by measurable data to verify whether requirements have been implemented by quantified data.

Access Control

It is also called Privilege in ZenTao. You will see the content either Public, visible to all users, or Private.

Action

It includes Edit, Delete, Link and more to a story/task/bug in ZenTao.

Block

It is a widget in ZenTao that can be quite customizable.

Build

It is to compile all of the source code for the project into a set of executable binaries, that in turn get packaged into a final product.

Burndown Chart

It is the same in Scrum.

Dynamic

When a user changes anything in ZenTao, a record will be displayed.

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Estimate

When creating/assigning a task/bug, you will enter the number of man-hours estimated to finish it.

Kanban

It is the same in Scrum.

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Milestone

It is the same in Scrum.

Module

It is a structure in an application that performs some function independently.

Planning Poker

A poker used in Scrum to estimate the man-hour to finish a task/bug etc.

Priority

When creating a story/task/bug/todo etc., you will be asked to set it. It marks the importance and is shorted as P on My Dashboard to show how important a story/task/bug/todo is in ZenTao.

Privilege

It is to set the access of a user to a certain view/module, which is done by setting groups in ZenTao.

Product Owner

It is called Product Manager sometimes in ZenTao.

R

It is the same in Scrum.

Retro Steps

It is steps taken to reproduce bugs in ZenTao.

Roadmap

It is a set of releases chronically.

Scrum Master

It is also seen as Project Manager who is in charge of a Sprint in ZenTao.

Sprint

It is also taken as a project in ZenTao,

Stage

It is the phase of the case in ZenTao.

Story

It is the same concept as user story in Scrum.

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WBS

It is to break down a story into several tasks for Dev teams.

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ZenTaoPHP

To be continued...