Agile technique that you should know

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Feeling lost when discuss, with your Agile expert, here are some jargon / techniques that commonly used by Agile process. 
  • "Prune the Product Tree" is a brainstorming exercise used to visualize the product's features and future growth. The team draws a tree where the trunk represents the core product, branches represent major features, and leaves or fruits represent smaller enhancements or ideas.
  • The Sailboat exercise is a collaborative Agile technique used to visualize and discuss potential risks (threats) and opportunities that might impact the project. In this exercise, the team imagines they are on a sailboat heading towards a goal (the land ahead).
  • A "Risk-based Spike" is an Agile practice where the team undertakes a time-boxed research activity or experiment to explore an area of uncertainty or a technical challenge.
  • This exercise is typically used for envisioning the successful completion of a project or a sprint. In "Remember the Future," participants imagine themselves at a point in the future where the project has been successfully completed. They then work backward to identify the steps that led to this success.
  • Affinity estimation is an Agile method where user stories are grouped into categories based on their relative size or complexity. In this case, the team is categorizing user stories by placing them under different columns on a whiteboard that represent different story point sizes, such as story point 1, story point 2, and so on.
  • Planning poker is a collaborative estimation technique where team members individually select a card representing their estimate for a user story, then reveal their estimates simultaneously.
  • Dot voting is a decision-making technique often used to prioritize items by allowing team members to place dots or marks on the options they prefer. It's typically used for prioritization, not for estimating the size or complexity of user stories.
  • Trend Analysis involves monitoring and analyzing data over time to identify patterns, trends, and anomalies. By studying the progress of the project, sprint outcomes, and other metrics over time, the team can spot trends that may indicate potential issues.
  • Fist of Five is a decision-making and consensus-building technique where team members rate their agreement with a proposed idea on a scale from one to five.
  • Yesterday's Weather is a concept that refers to using past performance as a predictor of future performance. While it can help with estimating future work based on previous sprints, it may not specifically address identifying potential issues.
  • Fishbone Analysis, also known as a cause-and-effect or Ishikawa diagram, fishbone analysis is useful for identifying root causes of existing issues.
By ridife on June 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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