What is a spike and why does it confuse so many people?

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What is a spike and why does it confuse so many people?

Mr. Agile®'s Answer:
Well, the spike is an interest sprint decision that a team needs to make often around an architectural decisions, such as: should we be using Oracle? should we be using MySQL? But the team will say is we'll take a couple of people -- don't do any functional development, I want you to spend the next 48 hours, I want you to look at which of these approaches is the better one for us to take come back with some recommendations that we can consider. Why does it confuse so many people? Well they're not sure how to handle it on the Sprint backlog. They don't know whether it should be considered a product backlog item. What we normally say is: Hey, if you're going to give people a couple of days out of the sprint, we'll probably track it as a task. So we can figure out how we're tracking with what is capacity and the remainder of the sprint itself but we're not going to make it a product backlog item because it's something that's happening within the sprint itself.

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