Andrew Michael Miller's Thought Backlog
Writer and working Agile professional. Author of Pancho's Fall.
In Scrum, it's important that developers communicate when they are working on stories. (Stories are the fully-broken down chunks of work that are put into the Sprint Backlog.) When a developer starts working on a story, they need to indicate in some way that they have assigned themselves that work, or else there is a risk that another developer might start working on the same story without knowing it's already being worked.
Ah, yes. I remember it like it was just yesterday. Opening this exotic abomination of a fruit, witnessing first hand why the Durian commands the top spot for SMELLIEST FRUIT ON THE PLANET. It stank so badly that our reactions got put on a TV show called Outrageous Acts of Science. Here is the throwback of the week, "Eating a Durian Fruit"!
