Labeling/tagging inconsistent or missing Story is low value but high effort Icebreaker made someone smile Retro item raised during refinement No links to related Jira/Ticket/Design Acceptance criteria copied from a template with no edits Dev, QA, and PO aligned well on story scope A backlog grooming task was created during the session Story contains placeholder text Title is too vague or generic Someone joined late or missed context Story has carry-over from 2+ sprints ago Duplicate functionality exists Story lacks a clear “why” or business value Potential regression risk identified Peer devs disagreed on approach Someone called out missing Definition of Ready Story marked “ready” but clearly isn’t Story involves external team dependency Refinement led to story splitting or cleanup Screenshot or mockup is missing or unclear We’ve already discussed this before… QA raised a testability concern early PO says, “Let me get back to you on that” Labeling/tagging inconsistent or missing Story is low value but high effort Icebreaker made someone smile Retro item raised during refinement No links to related Jira/Ticket/Design Acceptance criteria copied from a template with no edits Dev, QA, and PO aligned well on story scope A backlog grooming task was created during the session Story contains placeholder text Title is too vague or generic Someone joined late or missed context Story has carry-over from 2+ sprints ago Duplicate functionality exists Story lacks a clear “why” or business value Potential regression risk identified Peer devs disagreed on approach Someone called out missing Definition of Ready Story marked “ready” but clearly isn’t Story involves external team dependency Refinement led to story splitting or cleanup Screenshot or mockup is missing or unclear We’ve already discussed this before… QA raised a testability concern early PO says, “Let me get back to you on that”
(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
Labeling/tagging inconsistent or missing
Story is low value but high effort
Icebreaker made someone smile
Retro item raised during refinement
No links to related Jira/Ticket/Design
Acceptance criteria copied from a template with no edits
Dev, QA, and PO aligned well on story scope
A backlog grooming task was created during the session
Story contains placeholder text
Title is too vague or generic
Someone joined late or missed context
Story has carry-over from 2+ sprints ago
Duplicate functionality exists
Story lacks a clear “why” or business value
Potential regression risk identified
Peer devs disagreed on approach
Someone called out missing Definition of Ready
Story marked “ready” but clearly isn’t
Story involves external team dependency
Refinement led to story splitting or cleanup
Screenshot or mockup is missing or unclear
We’ve already discussed this before…
QA raised a testability concern early
PO says, “Let me get back to you on that”