Re: Practice: Weekly Cycle

On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 21:29:57 -0800, William Pietri 
<william-JnOFOPmZhjNBDgjK7y7TUQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  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. 
>  

How did you deal with the dependecies between the story chunks? 

Thanks,

Luiz Esmiralha


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