> Because the stories are always articulated in terms of user facing features they encourage developers to hack things together in the most expedient way possib

> Because the stories are always articulated in terms of user facing features they encourage developers to hack things together in the most expedient way possible and completely fail to capture the need to address cross cutting concerns, serious consideration of architecture, and refactoring. This is one of our biggest challenges. Much of the work we're doing isn't confined just to a user feature, so square-peg-round-hole syndrome affects us a lot.