Sprint ceremonies have their own precise vocabulary. Master these collocations to communicate confidently during planning sessions.
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Fill in: 'Can we ___ a sprint for next Monday? The team is ready to kick off.'
We 'run a sprint' — 'run' is the standard verb collocating with 'sprint' in Agile contexts. 'Make a sprint' and 'do a sprint' are informal and non-idiomatic; 'hold a sprint' collocates with meetings, not sprints.
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Fill in: 'Let's ___ a few more stories into this sprint if the team has spare capacity.'
We 'pull in stories' — a standard Agile collocation meaning to draw additional backlog items into the sprint. 'Put in' is too generic; 'bring on' is used for people; 'add up' means to sum numbers.
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Fill in: 'We need to ___ capacity before sprint planning so we know how much work to take on.'
We 'set capacity' — 'set' is the correct verb when establishing a limit or figure in planning. 'Fix capacity' implies repairing; 'make capacity' and 'give capacity' are not standard collocations.
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Fill in: 'The team voted to ___ the sprint goal even though it was ambitious.'
We 'commit to the goal' — 'commit to' is the Agile-standard phrase for a team formally pledging to deliver an objective. 'Agree on' is used for decisions; 'sign up' is informal; 'hold to' implies maintaining under pressure rather than pledging.
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Fill in: 'Before planning poker begins, the product owner must ___ each ticket so estimates are meaningful.'
We 'size a ticket' — 'size' means to assign a story-point scale to an item. 'Estimate a ticket' is close but 'size' is the precise Agile collocation. 'Measure' and 'count' are used for quantities, not effort complexity.