Practice: Favor finishing a story over starting a new one

Posted on 11. Jul, 2010 by Guilherme Silveira.

Symptom: Right before your development cycle finishes, which can be an iteration, a sprint or anything similar, all stories are marked as finished, giving a feeling of complete success. During the review meeting, when the Product Owner verifies what has been done, the number of approvals is extremely low: most of the stories are rejected. [...]

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