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Scrum - where do you do all the 'other' stuff?

With Scrum, there is the principal of user stories and these stemming tasks etc etc iterating around to a finished product - which is fine.

But, let's say I have 100 features that need implementing, in the real world I can't put any developer on these until a lot of the normal ancillary stuff has been done - for instance, doing a UI design (surely you need to have an overall idea of functionality for this?), or building the underlying stuff that doesn't necessarily manifest itself as a feature.

So, where does this happen?

Solution

  • My understanding is that in scrum you only build what is required to implement each user story. Therefore, you build the underlying stuff that is not a feature only when it is required to implement a feature for the user story you are working on.