Letting Debt Build Up
Here’s something that Todd has witnessed many times as a developer on Scrum teams:
A Scrum team sits in sprint planning debating how they’re going to implement a product backlog item. It isn’t an easy conversation because this particular item touches a very fragile part of the application. The Scrum team has known this for some time, yet nothing has been done to change it.
The product owner really wants this item to be done because she’d been hearing a lot of demand for it from customers. The development team doesn’t feel confident that they can accomplish this item without breaking something that’s already in production. They forecast that refactoring the relevant part of the code base could take multiple sprints. This ...
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