XP teams have to manage stories and tasks. The INVEST and SMART acronyms can remind teams of the good characteristics of each. Are you a Product Owner or a writer of user stories? I’d love to hear about your challenges and successes at william.wake@acm.org! In XP, we think of requirements of coming in the form of user stories. It would be easy to mistake the story card for the “whole story,” but R
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