Re: Practice: Weekly Cycle

On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 06:35 -0500, Ron Jeffries wrote:
>
> I continue to find task focus to be a problem. At least three problems, in
> fact:
> 
>   1. Task focus comes at the expense of story focus. Tasks get done but
>   somehow the story does not.

One compromise a recent team I coached came to was to break a story down
not into tasks but into tiny chunks of story. E.g., if an interaction
had several stages, the stages would be listed and checked off one by
one. Or if there were many fields involved, the whole flow might be
completed for just a couple of fields, and then additional fields were
added a few at a time.

I'm not sure how much that behavior contributed, but we rarely had the
problem of thinking that we were done when we weren't. 

William

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William Pietri <william-JnOFOPmZhjNBDgjK7y7TUQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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