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M. McCormickThe Agile Codexhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7280-0_15

15. Building Blocks

Planting the Tree
Michael McCormick1  
(1)
Boulder, CO, USA
 

In order to track and record the deliverables through the release life cycle, let’s define the building blocks, the objects that group each deliverable type, along with some high-level rules they conform to. All information and tracking of the work attach to these units. These units each have a single owner who is responsible for shepherding them through their life cycle.

There will be little in these blocks which vary in principle from standard Agile definitions, although where boundaries are drawn, and the abstraction ...

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