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To that end, consider his approach to not being too slavish to the construct of stories the first time they are written, to wit: it's sometimes necessary to split a story. Mike Cohn is a guy I respect for his practical experience which he uses to leaven (*) the theory of agile methods. But: mistakes can be made. To avoid the most commonly made mistakes, Cohn's advice: ". story splitting agile
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means are authorized" so long as they are: Morally and ethically constructed Conform to legal and regulatory constraints Actually Project ManagementJames Madison, one of the intellectuals of the American revolutionary period, writing in Federalist* 44 in the pre-constitutional period of the late 1780's, said this: ". wherever the end is required, the means are authorized" Whoa! Not so fast! What about ".
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