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Why should a User story fit in one sprint?
By
Dimitri Blinow
What are the benefits of Stories smaller than one iteration? Why divide Stories into even smaller pieces? Why should you split them?
Why should a User story fit entirely into one sprint? What are the benefits of having Stories smaller than one iteration? Why should you split bigger User stories? And even more — why divide Stories into even smaller pieces? What is the value of 1/5 sprint Stories?
In general, one or more tasks completed to the DoD state in each sprint allow you to comply with the Scrum principle of incrementality. But what does this mean, and why follow this principle?
Working in increments has many advantages, and a lot of them are listed below. I would like to introduce you 39 reasons why having small User stories is good for your team, your company, your product, your customer, client and users.