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Spikes

Spikes

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Spikes

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- Sometimes a backlog item just has too many unknowns for the team to dive in and commit to delivering. Great agile analysis and strong collaboration works to identify this scenario when a backlog item just has too many unknowns. Unknowns are things like a technical aspect that's new or unknown to the team, or a design that just needs to be tested out, or perhaps it's some research on a new way of doing something. When agile teams identify these types of things, due to being unable to estimate it, they use a spike. A spike is a timedboxed effort used to do the investigation, research or work needed to remove the ambiguity, and then estimate and deliver the backlog item. It's typically done within an iteration and has a known goal or a specific learning. There are two elements to make spikes successful. First is the spike goal. Chris, our Agile BA is a key player in ensuring the spike goal is well defined. He's careful to make…

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