Bill de hÓra: Managing large stories on agile projects
I've seen this granularity problem on every project, product or program I've worked on. Often in non-agile methods it comes it up in the form of traceability requirements on top of the actual requirements.
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Protip: Clone large projects multiple times
Large projects usually have large test suites that can run for a long time.
This can be annoying as running tests blocks you from picking up the next story -- but it doesn't have to be that way!
Simply clone your project's repo twice (or even mor...
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