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

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Code review English for developers: how to request changes on a pull request, and how to answer when someone requests changes on yours.

Follow Alex and Sam through a live pull request review, with QA engineer Priya joining by video call to flag an edge case. Sam thought her PR was ready to merge; Alex has comments. Learn the difference between a nit and a blocker, why "refactor" lands softer than "rewrite," and how to say "good catch" and "fair point" like a professional.

10 terms in this episode: pull request (PR), code review, LGTM, nit, refactor, edge case, readable, iterate, root cause, follow up

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Sprint retrospective English for developers: how to say what went wrong in a retro without blaming anyone.

Follow Alex and Sam through a real sprint retrospective, with QA engineer Priya joining by video call. The login feature shipped, but Thursday's deployment was rough. Hear the team move from "the DevOps team dropped the ball" to "the root cause was no shared checklist," and learn how to give honest feedback that fixes the process, not the person.

10 terms in this episode: retrospective (retro), what went well, room for improvement, pain point, root cause, iterate, takeaway, going forward, commit, trade-off

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How do you estimate work and commit to a sprint in English? Real Agile vocabulary for developers — story points, trade-offs, and more.

Follow Alex and Sam through a real sprint planning meeting, with QA engineer Priya joining by video call. You'll hear how to estimate a backlog item, negotiate a trade-off, and use "commit" instead of the false friend "compromise" — plus watch "blocked" and "on track" carry over from Episode 1.

📚 10 terms in this episode: sprint planning, backlog, story points, estimate, capacity, commit, trade-off, compromise, blocked, on track

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