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Knowing what you want

Posted by Marty Haught on Wednesday, January 23, 2008

I really enjoyed Jeff Patton’s latest blog post about agile development. This is something that I’ve known intuitively but have never seen it articulated so clearly. I’m not sure if my spidey sense would go off with a comment like this “We know what we want. Can you estimate how long it will take to build?”. I know that while this is their current view of what they want, undoubtedly it will change as the team starts to flesh it out. I will, however, feel quite comfortable saying you don’t need to know all the details but we’ll still need some guidance as to paint as much of a picture as we can of the story. Thanks for the tip Jeff. I’m now going to internalize this and see how things go.

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