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The feeling of never finishing anything is probably the thing I hate must about agile. Just little bits completed off an ever growing backlog.
by strictnein 7y ago
The feeling of never finishing anything is probably the thing I hate must about agile. Just little bits completed off an ever growing backlog.
- durnygbur 7y agoWasn’t it exactly how ancient Greeks imagined hell? (Sysiphos, Tantal).
- mmsimanga 7y agoI work in BI building data marts and reports. First we used to have what I would term technical user stories. Build this report, change that cube, build that mart... Then we added analysis stories and off late we now have design user stories. Our sprints are two weeks. One sprint ended up being the developer checking a tick box. But it took a whole month to complete because we had a two week analysis sprint and another two week "implementation" sprint. But guess what we successfully completed all our user stores.
- nradov 7y agoBeyond a certain point, if your backlog is continuously growing then your product owners simply aren't doing their job. The backlog should only contain thinks that can realistically be implemented within the next year or so (maybe two). Keeping anything in the backlog beyond that is pointless because by the time you get to it the customer requirements will have changed. So competent product owners need to actively purge backlog user stories which are no longer needed, and act as gatekeepers to limit what gets into the backlog in the first place.