Re: Re: Responsibility

On Sunday, December 15, 2002, at 8:25:24 AM, J. B. Rainsberger wrote:

>>Is it typical for XP customers to say what each story is worth, either
>>in dollars or in some other unit of value?  Ordering the stories from
>>most to least valuable, all by itself, doesn't indicate what any story
>>is worth.

> I would assume that the Customer has used the story's overall worth to determine whether the project is worth
> continuing (or even starting). You are right that sorting stories only provides relative value. If the team costs
> $50k/iteration and the team is only doing about $35k of expected net revenue/iteration, then it's time to stop the
> project. 

Here's a question: consider a project that assigns a dollar value to each story,
and another project that only knows, for any pair of stories, which one is worth
more.

What differences could we detect in the decisions made in these two projects?

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.  -- Jessica Rabbit


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