RE: How Do You Decide How Long Things Will Take (in a SCRUM Shop)?

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pro TechWriter
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:17 PM
> To: Guy McDonald
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: How Do You Decide How Long Things Will Take (in 
> a SCRUM Shop)?
> 
> ... One other idea that goes with agile is "Make it good enough; 
> not perfect." That means that there may be bugs in the 
> software, and there may be errors in the documentation, but 
> we will make it better next time."
> 
> I know agile is a shock after working other ways...
> 

I've never worked at a company where the software had to be perfect to
be released.

Errors in documentation are different: There's an assumption that if you
find one, you can usually fix it quickly (unless you've already printed
15,000 manuals...). But software bugs can be judged too expensive or
time-consuming to resolve in the current build.


































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