starting debt

Starting Debt

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A hand holding a credit card. The card represents starting debt, and it's being cut by a pair of scissors.

Starting work is taking on a debt. It’s a promise of completion. In many industries, including software development, incomplete work has no practical value. In practices like Scrum or Kanban, teams are encouraged to limit their work to what they expect they can reliably complete in the time chosen. This is done partly to create … Read more