4 ms·

> At my previous gig we always had deadlines and we never missed them (technically, stuff gets de-scoped) I call those “deadlines” time boxes. I believe that t

• doix 4y ago
  > I call those “deadlines” time boxes. I believe that the industry would greatly benefit from distinguishing the two. Interesting, I've not heard time box used in that context. I've seen it used to limit the amount of time you spent on something. So if there is some tricky bug, you would timebox it to 3 days one week. Regardless of if you fix the bug or not, you stop working on it after 3 days even if you don't deliver a fix. In what I was talking about, you still delivered _something_, it might just be less than what was (initially) agreed upon. Normally it's polish/ux niceties that don't make the cut and then come in a later version.
  • laserlight 4y ago
    Ah, OK. If you came back to the dropped scope, then timeboxing wouldn't be the best term to describe it.