RE: Re: Practice: Weekly Cycle

I agree with you wrt slowing down/speeding up at the iteration boundaries.
However, having larger stories that are not completed, greatly effects the
velocity of the team, as the uncompleted stories can not be counted as being
done.

When have a few large stories, the effect upon our over all velocity is
greater when stories are not finished.

When have many smaller stories, the effect upon our over all velocity is
lower when stories are not finished.

Aside from this, I find (in general) the bigger the estimate/story, the
least the team actually understands it and often miss many tasks.
Essentially larger stories tend to always be under-estimated.

Andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Hogan [mailto:bwhogan-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 01 December 2004 14:41
> To: xpbookdiscussiongroup-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xpe2e] Re: Practice: Weekly Cycle
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> Paul,
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> Is the fact that a story is "comfortably completed" a side-effect of
> the ordering or priority in the iteration?
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> Iterations are in some ways just a reporting boundary, so the last
> card in an iteration will often be incomplete, and if you have a
> larger team, you will have multiple incomplete stories. This is
> assuming that you have a constant pace, and you don't speed up or slow
> down to accomodate the iteration boundary. Both speeding up and
> slowing down seem like a bad idea to me.
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> Ben Hogan
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> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:49:47 -0800, Paul Hodgetts
> <phodgetts-5PSskdmeComukZHgTAicrQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  In your iteration retrospective, briefly visit each story, and
> >  ask if the story was "comfortably completed," where "comfort"
> >  means it wasn't rushed at the end of the iteration, ...
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