One of the luminaries in the Agile development community is my aforementioned friend, Alistair Cockburn, who once told me, “For every story you write, you need to put three into your backlog of stories.” I asked him why, and he said, “You just do.” I asked, “What should I write on the other two?” “It doesn’t matter what you write.” “What do you mean?” I asked, “I have to write something on them!” Alistair replied, “Well, if you have to write something on them, then write what you want on the first card, and on the second card write ‘Fix the first card.’ Then on the third card, write ‘Fix the
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