Hi All
I've just recently come across an agile term called SPIKES.
http://scaledagileframework.com/spikes/
How do you, or how can you, use this in JIRA - specifically within Scrum Boards?
Benefits...etc?
Any info would be useful.
Thanks!
Lot of people do this creating an issue type named Spike. This will help you differentiate spikes from actual stories or tasks.
As quoted in the link, "the purpose of the spike is to gain the knowledge necessary to ...". Hence, a story or task will come out of a Spike and and you can link it back to the Spike using the JIRA issue links (for traceability).
Spikes will be estimated for a specific amount of time and can be added into the boards just like you add stories or tasks.
Great, thank you for the clarification! I'll create a separate issue type for it.
Great answer
spot on
Everything is an issue in Jira. Like a story, task, spike is also an issue, whereas a spike cannot be treated as a story because it is termed as a spike because of lack of clarity. The agile team should self-assign the responsibility for investing and conversion of it as a story and the time required. The assignee who investigates the spike allocates the time to resolve (Not Story points). Once resolved it should converted as a story.
So, what are the different workflow status that can be associated with Spike? Are these the ones Assigned, In Progress, Pending, Review etc. but since it is not deployed or doesn't go to the development what status should we use when the investigation is done on the spike and it is ready to be closed against a story or stories.
Thank you for your help in advance.
Good reply
AWESOME. Thank you.
Not true. Often the result of a spike is that NO work needs to be done. It is a DISCOVERY activity. So it may NEVER get converted to a story.But it MAY take story points to get to that point of understanding.
I can't see Spike as an Issue Type in JIRA Cloud - am I missing something?
I believe these are custom made for your project.
https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiracloud/adding-editing-and-deleting-an-issue-type-844500747.html
How do you account for spikes in the time during a sprint? If we are using Story Points, and the team delivers on a certain velocity per sprint, then how do we account for also needing some Spikes done during the sprint?
We just put the word SPIKE in the title and abuse the rest of JIRA into passive submission when the SPIKE is updated with discovery information. Then it is closed complete - again with all the abuse required by the JIRA system.
We have both SPIKE Features and SPIKE User Stories. It just depends on what level of detail is needed for the investigation at hand.
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