The vocabulary around daily standups and the agile ceremonies, roles, and artifacts that surround them.
The full list of work the team could do — everything not yet finished, roughly prioritized.
The recurring session where the team cleans up the backlog — clarifying vague tickets, re-prioritizing, splitting oversized stories, deleting stuff nobody wants anymore.
Same thing as grooming — some teams prefer this term because 'grooming' has an unfortunate secondary meaning.
A big chunk of work too large for one sprint, made up of multiple smaller stories.
The complete, prioritized backlog for the whole product, owned by the Product Owner.
A time-boxed task meant to answer a question or reduce uncertainty — not to ship anything, just to figure out how something should be built.
A fixed time window — usually one or two weeks — where the team commits to finishing a set chunk of work.
The specific slice of the product backlog the team committed to for the current sprint.
The one-sentence reason the sprint's work matters — what the team is actually trying to accomplish, not just the list of tickets.
A piece of work written from the user's point of view, usually in the format 'As a [user], I want [thing], so that [reason].'