Re: Practice: Weekly Cycle

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 09:26 -0300, Luiz Esmiralha wrote:
> >  
> >  One compromise a recent team I coached came to was to break a story down
> >  not into tasks but into tiny chunks of story.
> 
> How did you deal with the dependecies between the story chunks? 

I could think of a number of things you might mean by that. I'll guess
at which one it is, but if I guess wrong, please do correct me.

Generally, it wasn't a big concern; because we had scheduled the story
for the iteration, we were pretty sure it would be done when it
mattered.

But as with selecting stories, we always worked to find something
minimal to get working first. E.g., we'd start with the first page of
the sequence with just a couple of fields. Then we'd try it out, check
in, and look for the next small unit of work, like the error cases for
those fields. If we went for more than 60-90 minutes without something
we could look at and check in, we felt like we were on thin ice.

William

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