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Amy Mitchell's avatar

Some teams call the investigation into a hard problem a Spike. Great analogy with the monkey and pedestal. Time boxing and defining a Spike is important. Thanks Mike!

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Mike Watson's avatar

Good call! I've had dev teams I work with do spikes in the past. The way we used them while also having 0 business analysts often ended up being a hybrid of what that role would do along with solution design.

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