I got into a nasty argument while working with stories on my very first Agile project when I began a story conversation and learned that my story was too big. I’d hoped to get this story done in the next iteration. The developers I spoke with informed me otherwise. I felt like I’d done something wrong. The developers identified a small part we could talk about that could be accomplished in our next iteration. But I left frustrated that we couldn’t talk about the big picture. I really wanted to understand how much time the big thing I really needed would take. I’d hoped this discussion would
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