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Technical Spike

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Driving a Technical Spike Using Behaviour Driven Development

October 22, 2018
BDD, Technical Spike, Coaching,
2 minutes read

Most Agile methodologies provide for the application of a Technical Spike for exploring a new technology or risky areas of a product. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology defines the Spike as a type of Exploration and Enabler Story. There are a number of approaches that have been recommended for Technical Spikes. These include: Estimating and sizing a Technical Spike Story Timeboxing a Technical Spike . The Technical Spike is exploratory in nature and it is conflicting to attempt to estimate the complexity for a piece of work that is not well understood; in my experience most teams would rather Timebox the efforts required to complete a Technical Spike.