Zen and the Art of Merging Code
The team estimated stories in points: one, two, three, five, eight. A junior asked, “What is a point?” The senior developer replied, “A point is what we agree it is.” “That seems arbitrary.” “It is. That is why it works. The moment we measure it precisely, we will be measuring the wrong thing.” Beyond the […]
The team estimated story points and committed to a sprint goal. They planned every hour of the coming weeks. The senior developer asked, “What happens to the time you didn’t plan?” And, “When you commit to the future, what do you assume about the present?” What This Means for Your Practice Sprint planning represents one […]
