Ep. 5 — Backlog Refinement: Asking the Right Questions About Requirements
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Ep. 5 — Backlog Refinement: Asking the Right Questions About Requirements
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What do you say when a Jira ticket has no acceptance criteria and everyone is making different assumptions? Real Agile vocabulary for developers — scope, dependencies, and the questions that save you from building the wrong thing.
Follow Alex and Sam through a backlog refinement session with product manager Elena joining by video call. A vague "forgot password" ticket forces the team to surface hidden assumptions, define acceptance criteria, and set the scope — before a single line of code gets written. Plus, "edge case" and "pull request" return from Episode 4, and "estimate" carries over from Episode 2.
10 terms in this episode: refine / refinement, acceptance criteria, scope, out of scope, assumption, clarify, dependency, edge case, estimate, pull request
This episode is for language learning purposes only. Workplace scenarios are fictional.
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