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Agile: A project management approach in which project phases overlap and tasks are completed in iterations

Authority: Refers to one's ability to make decisions for the project that impact the organization

Adoption: Refers to how the customer uses and adapts a product or service without any issues

Asana: A work management platform that helps teams plan and coordinate their work; useful for building project plans, assigning tasks, automating workflows, tracking progress, and communicating with stakeholders

Abandoned project: A project in which inadequate handoff or transition on the project deliverables occurs

Acceptance criteria: Pre-established standards or requirements that a product, service, or process must meet

Accessible: Something that is easily used, accessed, or adapted for use by people experiencing disabilities

Action item: A task that needs to be completed

Adoption metrics: Metrics that indicate whether or not a product, service, or process is accepted and used

Air cover: Support for and protection of a team in the face of out-of-scope requests or criticism from leadership

Analytics: The process of answering business questions, discovering relationships, and predicting outcomes based on the analysis of data

Acceptance criteria: The checklist the project manager uses to decide whether a story is done

Adaptation: Adjusting project, product, or processes to minimize any further deviation or issues; one of the three pillars of Scrum

Agile Manifesto: A collection of four values and 12 principles that define the mindset that all Agile teams should strive for

Agile project management: An approach to project and team management that embodies “agility” based on the Agile Manifesto

Ambiguity: A state where conditions and root causes of events or circumstances are unclear, leading to the possibility of misunderstanding

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Alignment: Reaching agreement between two or more parties ****