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by jagged-chisel 18 days ago
> So please tell me again, are you done?

Yes. I am done.

Is the story done? Of course. There is nothing else to do on that story because we broke things down into these minuscule story cards.

Is the feature done? Probably not. If you want to hold the “done” classification on the minuscule story until the roll-up of all the feature’s stories are “done“, merged, QA tested, deployed to staging, PM tested, deployed to users, and actually used … well, our “momentum” is gonna look terrible.

At some point I have to get this off my plate and move on. If you want this team’s engineers to babysit their stories until they land in users’ laps, that’s not gonna work. If you want all the stories to sit in operations’ hands until that point, you’re screwing their metrics.

Simply put: it ain’t that simple.

1 comments

Perhaps we should.. break the wheel? :)
I replied to your other reply to me. I don't know where my message actually belongs - here or there. I will leave it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48907739 because I can't decide >.<