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If saying "I spent all day in front of whiteboard trying to work out the best solution to this problem" isn't an acceptable thing to say in your daily standup t
by jon-wood 6y ago
If saying "I spent all day in front of whiteboard trying to work out the best solution to this problem" isn't an acceptable thing to say in your daily standup then your project manager needs speaking to. With my team not only is that acceptable, but we include cards in the planning process for specifically that sort of thing, with a note on them saying they're going to spawn more once we have an idea of what the solution actually is.
- ryandrake 6y ago> spawn more once we have an idea of what the solution actually is That's really the key a lot of development orgs miss. You have to actually break down the work into smaller pieces and track progress on those pieces. "This feature will take 3 months to do. I will start now and three months later, a working feature will pop out of the black box." - will give most Project Managers a heart attack. "This feature will take 3 months to do. I'll take a few days to break it down into approximately 1-week sized milestones and throughout development we can talk about progress vs. those milestones." - ahhh, that's much better!