Glossary
The technical terms of this documentation, sorted alphabetically, with the German equivalent. Product terms such as Story, Epic or Iteration stay English in German, while the state names in the German interface are Idee, Entwurf, Bereit, Zu erledigen, In Arbeit and Erledigt.
| German | English | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| Automatische Schätzung | Automatic estimate | The provisional value every user story without its own estimation gets: the median of all estimations in the project, marked with ≈ in the interface. You can override it at any time. |
| Backlog | Backlog | All stories that are not yet built, ordered by state and priority. You maintain it in Prepare as Kanban or List. |
| Bucket | Bucket | A thematic package of stories for joint planning, just a name without date or status. A story belongs to at most one bucket. |
| Build | Build | Navigation phase where the team delivers the work in iterations (Iteration Board, Iterations). |
| Abgebrochen | Canceled | A story that was closed without ever reaching Done. It delivers no points. |
| Cycle Time | Cycle Time | How long the actual building takes: from Doing to Done. |
| Delivery | Delivery | Second phase of a story (how do we build it?) with the states Todo, Doing and Done. |
| Abhängigkeit | Dependency | A relationship in which one ticket blocks another and enforces an order. |
| Dev-Story | Dev Story | A technical story without user value, without story points, without an epic. |
| Discovery | Discovery | First phase of a story (what do we build?) with the states Idea, Draft and Ready. |
| In Arbeit | Doing | State: work is in progress. |
| Erledigt | Done | State: the work is finished. The story only counts toward velocity once it is also closed. |
| Entwurf | Draft | State: details and requirements are being refined. |
| Epic | Epic | A sub-goal of an initiative; a step users take toward the goal. |
| Schätzung | Estimation | The story points you give a user story. Workitems have no estimation. |
| Globale Priorität | Global priority | The ranking of all stories in the project: the further along the state, the higher the priority (stop starting, start finishing). Within a state, the order in the backlog decides. The order in the storyboard is not part of it. |
| Gast | Guest | An entry without a login, just a name, that accesses individual projects through share links. Takes up a seat. |
| Idee | Idea | State: captured but not yet picked up. One sentence is enough. |
| Initiative | Initiative | A large goal that sets direction. |
| Insights | Insights | Navigation phase with the analyses: Timeline, Progress and Flow. |
| Iteration | Iteration | A fixed period the team commits work to. |
| Iteration Board | Iteration Board | View in Build: the board of the active iteration with the delivery and discovery tracks and the workitems. |
| Kanban | Kanban | View in Prepare: every state is a column, and you drag stories between columns. |
| Lead Time | Lead Time | How long a ticket spent in a state, from the timestamps per state. In Flow: from Todo until closed. |
| MCP | MCP | Model Context Protocol: the interface through which an AI assistant works with Betterplan on your behalf. |
| Offen / Geschlossen | Open / Closed | A second status, independent of the state: closed means delivered and accepted, or deliberately dropped. |
| Orbit | Orbit | A second view of the storyboard built for storytelling: from the product vision down to the stories of a single epic. |
| Organisation | Organization | The account that owns members, teams, guests and the subscription. |
| Parent | Parent | The ticket above in the hierarchy (the Parent field). A ticket's type follows its parent. |
| Phase | Phase | Betterplan has two kinds: the four phases of the navigation (Scope, Prepare, Build, Insights) and the two phases in the life of a story (Discovery and Delivery). |
| Prepare | Prepare | Navigation phase where you refine, prioritize and estimate stories (Kanban, List, Estimation view). |
| Projekt-Story | Project Story | An organizational story without user value, without story points, without an epic. |
| Rapid Estimation | Rapid estimation | Quick estimation: Betterplan extrapolates the size of the backlog from a few estimates. |
| Bereit | Ready | State: discovery is complete, the story is clear enough to be built. |
| Referenz (Verweis) | Reference (link) | A plain pointer from one ticket to another, for example via # in the description. It enforces no order. |
| Referenz-Epic / Referenz-Initiative | Reference epic / reference initiative | An epic (or initiative) marked with the Reference switch whose stories are fully estimated. It sets the state Ready and defines the extrapolation factor. There is only one per level. |
| Release | Release | A milestone and swimlane in the storyboard. |
| Rework | Rework | Story points that went into corrections after delivery (the Rework field). The value is added up, never replaced. |
| Roadmap | Roadmap | Goal-oriented roadmap: every release is a goal, and the stories behind it hang off it. |
| S2E-Faktor / E2I-Faktor | S2E factor / E2I factor | Rapid estimation factors: story points per epic point (Story to Epic) and epic points per initiative point (Epic to Initiative), computed from the reference epic or reference initiative. |
| Scope | Scope | Navigation phase where you structure your plan with Storyboard, Roadmap and Orbit. Also the word for everything that is meant to be built. |
| Platz | Seat | A license seat in the organization. Whoever has a seat can create and edit projects. |
| Freigabelink | Share link | A link that gives a person outside the organization access to a single project, without an account or login. |
| Snapshot | Snapshot | The recorded state of an iteration when it is completed. Velocity and Insights read the history from it. |
| Stakeholder | Stakeholder | A person with an interest in the project who stays informed through Insights or a share link. |
| Story | Story | A concrete, buildable piece of work (user, project or devteam story). |
| Story Point | Story point | A relative unit for the size of a story, with no time unit. The scale: 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 60, 100. |
| Storyboard | Storyboard | View in the Scope phase: the story map of initiatives, epics and stories, with releases as swimlanes. |
| Swimlane | Swimlane | A horizontal row in the storyboard. Every release is a swimlane. |
| Tag | Tag | Your own keyword on a ticket. You can filter by it. |
| Team | Team | A group that sees and edits projects. Personal (automatic, only you) or shared. Roles: Owner, Admin, Member. |
| Throughput | Throughput | How many stories get finished per iteration, without any estimate. |
| Timeline | Timeline | View in Insights: releases and iterations on a time axis, with forecast and date conflicts. |
| Zu erledigen | Todo | State: planned but not started. From here the team has committed (the commitment point). |
| User Story | User Story | A story with user value. Only it has story points and counts toward velocity. |
| Velocity | Velocity | The story points the team typically delivers per iteration: the average of the last three completed iterations. |
| Workitem | Workitem | The smallest unit for coordinating delivery on the iteration board. |
| Workspace | Workspace | Your working area in Betterplan: the organization with its teams, projects and members. |