Architectural and Risk Spikes

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Periasamy Srirengaramiah Palanichamy Project Director| Oracle Financial Services Software Inc Charlotte, Nc, United States

Hello Experts,

What is the significant difference between architectural and risk spikes?, under what circumstances the agile team plan for the above spikes, i could see both terminologies overlap in scenarios where feasibility study is carried out, planing for risk mitigation during project execution. In practical scenario do the agile teams estimate for both of them during iteration planning from your experience?. Please clarify in detail. Thanks in advance!

Posted: Jan 30, 2019 9:54 AM (Updated by author: Jan 30, 2019 9:55 AM)

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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada

Periasamy -

A spike is simply a timeboxed deep dive into a specific area of uncertainty. What you add as a prefix before the spike helps to categorize the nature of the uncertainty (e.g. research spike vs. design spike).

Spikes should be sized and the effort to be committed to them should be considered when sprint planning. I like to see them called out in the sprint backlog to ensure transparency.

Kiron

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1 reply by Periasamy Srirengaramiah Palanichamy

Jan 30, 2019 3:39 PM

Periasamy Srirengaramiah Palanichamy

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Thank you Kiron. This helps

Posted: Jan 30, 2019 2:16 PM

Periasamy Srirengaramiah Palanichamy Project Director| Oracle Financial Services Software Inc Charlotte, Nc, United States

Jan 30, 2019 2:16 PM

Replying to Kiron Bondale

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Thank you Kiron. This helps

Posted: Jan 30, 2019 3:39 PM

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