If the story describes a solution that’s affordable but big, break it into smaller parts that allow you to evaluate and see progress sooner. There’s a trick to breaking down large stories, and it helps me to keep the cake metaphor in my head. If you like cake, by now you might be getting hungry—especially if the cake you’re imagining is a particularly tasty one. Sorry about that. Let’s say our story describes a need for a lot bigger cake, like a super-giant wedding cake that will feed hundreds of people. If so, then it isn’t just cups of flour and sugar anymore, it’s sacks of flour and sugar.
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