Stage 2 · Lesson 2 of 9
Agile, sprints, tickets and boards
Most software teams work in short cycles. In , a popular way of working, each cycle is a sprint of one or two weeks. In Kanban, work flows continuously instead.
Work is split into tickets, small written tasks, in a tool such as Jira, Linear or GitHub Issues. Tickets wait in a backlog, a ranked list of work to do. The team tracks them across a board from to do to done.
Regular meetings include planning, a short daily , reviews and , where the team discusses what to improve. You will write tickets, comment on them or have your own work tracked through them. Learn to read a ticket: the problem, the (the conditions that mean it is done), linked and its status.
Common traptreating the process as the goal. Teams that follow every ceremony but never learn from users are still building the wrong thing.
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