May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
22h 53m
English

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research.
—Albert Einstein
Spikes are a type of exploration Enabler Story in SAFe. Defined initially in Extreme Programming (XP), they represent activities such as research, design, investigation, exploration, and prototyping. Their purpose is to gain the knowledge necessary to reduce the risk of a technical approach, better understand a requirement, or increase the reliability of a story estimate.
The Agile and Lean approaches value facts over speculation. When faced with a question, risk, or uncertainty, Agile Teams conduct small experiments before moving to implementation, ...
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