Scrum ceremonies have their own professional vocabulary. Estimate story points, prioritise the backlog, and define the scope are the collocations used in sprint planning meetings worldwide. These exercises will make you sound fluent and confident in agile team environments.
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During planning poker, the team must ___ for each user story before committing to the sprint.
Estimate story points is the canonical Scrum and agile collocation. Story point estimation is a deliberate approximation, and 'estimate' correctly conveys the uncertainty involved. 'Assign' story points is also common, but 'estimate' reflects the collaborative forecasting nature of the practice.
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The product owner's main responsibility before sprint planning is to ___ so the most valuable work comes first.
Prioritise the backlog is the standard Scrum and product management collocation. The Scrum Guide uses 'ordered backlog' but 'prioritise the backlog' is the widely-used professional term for ranking items by value and urgency. 'Order' is the Scrum Guide's term but less common in practice.
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Once the development team agrees on the work, the Scrum Master will ___ and move it to 'In Progress'.
Accept a ticket is the professional Scrum collocation for a developer formally committing to work on a task in the sprint. 'Pick up a ticket' is also widely used informally. 'Accept' reflects the commitment aspect — in some workflows, 'accept' signals the developer's formal ownership of the work.
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Before the sprint can begin, the team needs to ___ and ensure it fits within the available capacity.
Define the scope is the standard project management and sprint planning collocation. 'Define' implies a deliberate, documented specification of what is and is not included. It is the most common verb with 'scope' in agile, project management, and product documentation.
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The Scrum Master called a two-hour session for the whole team to ___ for the next two weeks.
Plan the sprint is the direct Scrum collocation matching the ceremony called 'sprint planning'. The Scrum framework uses 'plan' as the verb for this activity — selecting items from the backlog and creating the sprint goal. All other options are less idiomatic in agile contexts.