A spike is a sharp rise in the frequency for a given variable, usually immediately followed by a decrease. This sort of transient variation is often seen in the measurement of voltage or current in circuits. Download this free guide.
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This exclusive focus on functionality could easily turn the project into a ‘Feature Factory’, with the risk of accumulating architectural deficiencies and technical debt that has an impact on performance of the software and overall product quality.
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The concept of the spike is often used in conjunction with an architectural issue. Sometimes the architecture spike is referred to as Sprint 0, since the goal is to map out enough future bones to get going and to start working on creating the product backlog. This corresponds with the exploration phase in an XP project, encompassing the tentative user stories and initial architectural modeling.
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Definition - What does Spike mean? Spike is an indicator used by Agile software to build theoretical features that should be included in software. A user’s spike (story) should be determined according to what the user states during basic development project phases and geared toward user software requirements.
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Spikes help avoid expanding documents that increase administrative overhead. A user spike allows a developing team to react quickly to user requirements and goals. A user spike is typically written in human language in the form of informal statements. These statements are transformed into algorithms that require user acceptance before being turned into working program code.
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In agile software development, a spike is a story that cannot be estimated until a development team runs a timeboxed investigation. The output of a spike story is an estimate for the original story. In online gaming, a spike is a tactic whereby one or several players simultaneously inflict a massive amount of damage upon a single player or target, overwhelming the capacity of that target to regenerate or self-heal.
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1 Research – broad, foundational knowledge-gaining to decide what to spike or give the ability to estimate – indicator: don’t know a potential solution.  Tracer Bullet – very narrow implementation in production quality of an epic/large user story – indicator: user story is too large in estimation.
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Research, Spikes, Tracer Bullets, Oh My! A couple of years ago, a team that I was working on as ScrumMaster had a discussion on what is a spike versus research versus tracer bullets. The reason for the discussion was how loosely we used these terms with our current customer. It was confusing to both the customer and us.
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A contract programmer is a computer programmer who is employed on a temporary or fixed-length contract. A contract programmer is often employed to develop application software/programs or to work on a specific information technology project for small or large businesses, government agencies or computer manufacturers.
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Facing a spike and the associated user story, the product owner should prioritise the spike ahead of the user story to obtain a more reliable estimate for the realization of the user story. As a rule, the spike will be time-boxed. It sounds a bit like a contradiction to prescribe ‘a time-boxed discovery’. But to explicitly address the research part of a user story avoids ‘creeping’ in the discovery process, so time capping the spike will help to keep the project on schedule.
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what is a agile spike
Spike is an indicator used by Agile software to build theoretical features that should be included in software. Agile spike is an indicator used by Agile software to build theoretical features that should be included in software.