Optimal Issue Length about agilelite HOT 2 CLOSED

Yeah, those are good points.

I haven't read that blog post from 37signals but am a big fan of the company and many of their philosophies wrt organizing a business/project. Let me take a look. My current wording is awkward and could use a revision--I think yours is probably fine. Will leave it up here for a bit in case someone else wants to weigh in.

On the point of deployment/delivery at the end of an issue, my instinct is to be agnostic as to method. While there are many good arguments for continuous integration, I find there are reasons in practice for waiting on deployments and those reasons can vary a lot depending on the company/team/project. In these cases, I think it could make sense for "deploy to staging" or whatever to be an actual Issue in the sprint.

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I see your point on being agnostic on continuous integration, and how it ( probably ) extends to other tools and processes like test-driven development, pair programming, etc. There are always going to be companies or projects that may follow some but not all and that's totally fine. Delivering to users as a requirement would also go against workflows such as gitlabs release cadence and other timely releases.

Maybe one of these alternatives.

• An issue is any unit of work that can be completed in its entirety within the sprint. ( this assumes there is some understanding of entirety for the team/project/company but that we are agnostic on what that is. )
• An issue is any unit of work that can be completed based on your team/project/company standards.
• An issue is any unit of work that can be completed within the sprint. ( just no extra statement about requirements )
• An issue is any unit of work that can be completed in a single sprint, splitting if necessary. ( Can also include a small detail that favoring larger issues is ideal. )

I would still include the second sentence of being in the sprint or backlog, I think that is very important.

I think the difference here is all very minimal so whatever aligns more with your vision.

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