Team Glossary

Browse 7 team terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

7 Team Terms

Bus Factor: The minimum number of team members who would have to be hit by a bus (or otherwise suddenly unavailable) before a project stalls due to lack of knowledge. A...
Bus Factor: The minimum number of team members who would need to be suddenly unavailable (hit by a bus, quit, go on vacation) before a project stalls due to loss of...
Glue Work: The essential but often invisible work that holds teams together — onboarding new members, writing documentation, coordinating across teams, improving...
Mob Programming: Mob Programming is a collaborative software development approach where the entire team works together on the same code, at the same time, using a single...
Psychological Safety: A team environment where members feel safe to take interpersonal risks — admitting mistakes, asking 'dumb' questions, proposing unconventional ideas, and...
Retrospective: A recurring team meeting at the end of an iteration or project where participants reflect on what went well, what went wrong, and what to improve in the next...
Two-Pizza Team: Amazon's principle that no team should be larger than can be fed by two pizzas (roughly 6-10 people). Small teams have less communication overhead (n²...