| spalding 2004-08-05, 9:24 am |
| Hi
I have recently started studying xp programming and have been using it's methodology when tackling my latest projects. And I freely admit, it has increased productivity dramatically.
However, I have a problem;
I am just finishing off an iteration but it has taken five w s to complete. extremeprogramming.org states iterations are "1 to 3 ws long". While I believe I scheduled my tasks correctly and assigned the correct amount of time to the iteration (about 2 ws), I did not foresee the problems I would run into.
To sum up, everything was running smoothly until I had to implement one piece of trivial (but necessary) functionality. I did not create a test scenario for this because I thought it would be simple to implement. But limitations of the programming environment and poor documentation of the feature drew the development time out farther and farther.
What I would like to know is;
1. Have I planned this iteration incorrectly?
2. Should I have written test scenarios for every single piece of functionality?
Or is this just a problem that will arise from time-to-time? |