Q and A on velocity, Part VIII
In our previous post , we discussed doing smaller units of work, and doing no more of them than we need to fulfill an end-user's needs. This way, we get many things done, we deliver more quickly, and we develop less unneeded code (provided we get frequent feedback from users). Fans of agile software development will recognize this as one of the axiomatic concepts behind agile, derivative of much earlier work on incremental and iterative development . Without incremental, iterative development and feedback, a process can hardly be said to be agile in any way whatsoever. So we pick up the conversation today at that point: A: ...But I we get 23 points now, and they're as big as the 1/19th sized ones. B: That has two possible explanations. A: What is the first explanation B: That they're assigning more points to same-sized work: inflation . A: Why would they do that? People in an organization are constantly trying to satisfy their bosses. When organizations put ...