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sankyo | 8 years ago
If you let the product team dictate every story, you are doing it wrong. Grow a spine and negotiate some tech stories into the sprint. After you establish credibility, it will get better.
If something needs refactoring and a 2point story comes along with that code, make it a 5 point story and clean up the code.
In a business, cash is oxygen and it must make smart choices about what gets worked on. And software developers are expensive. Just like democracy is the worst form of government except for all the rest, agile is the worst process ...
Don’t get caught up in the rigamarole of agile consultants. Every activity is meant to help communication between product and developers. If some activity does not help then convince people with data to stop doing it.
Stories are a blueprint for WHAT is built.
Points are GUESSES at the effort to complete something, which may better inform someone about the order in which stories are played.
Groooming is about meeting those devils hiding in the details.
If you lack the conviction to be an active participant in the process, then do not be surprised at what unfortunate kafkaesque universe you find yourself in.
Even the most mundane stories can have a lot of variability. “I need to mail a lettter” ok, 1 point. Um, there are no stamps. Get in the car to buy some. Car has low gas. Go to the gas station. Get to post office and realize you have no cash ... software development is no different.
chrisseaton|8 years ago
No but they plan to have a workload that doesn’t mean they have to work as fast as they can for their entire career.
You can’t sprint all the time. If you are then you aren’t really at your sprint speed.
gaius|8 years ago
Airline pilots do between flights. You can cherrypick an example for anything.