Backlog Grooming
The process of reviewing, prioritizing, and updating items in the backlog to ensure they are ready for development.
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“task refinement”
Definition of Ready
A set of criteria that a user story or task must meet before being accepted into the development cycle, ensuring it is actionable and clear.
Hard-Easy Effect
A cognitive bias where people overestimate the probability of success for difficult tasks and underestimate it for easy tasks.
Eisenhower Matrix
A time management tool that helps prioritize tasks based on their urgency and importance, dividing them into four quadrants.
Engineering Backlog
A prioritized list of tasks, features, and technical debt items that need to be addressed by the engineering team.
Eat the Frog
A productivity technique that involves tackling the most challenging task first thing in the morning.
Sequential Navigation
A navigation design pattern where users follow a specific order of steps or stages to complete a task, often used in forms, surveys, and instructional guides.
Wizard
A step-by-step guide that helps users complete a complex task by breaking it down into manageable steps.
Accot-Zhai Steering Law
A model predicting the speed-accuracy trade-off in pointing tasks when using devices like a mouse, important for user interface design.