Synopsis: Magic Beans

Let’s imagine another scenario. “Why is it taking so long to add one little feature?” asks your manager one day. Your manager had assigned your team to enhance the bug-tracking application to show a count of how many comments a bug had received. You’ve been working on this task for four weeks.

Your group of software developers in the meeting room look reluctant to answer the question. As project lead, you answer, “We’ve had a couple of false starts,” you explain. “It seemed simple at first until we realized there were some other screens in the application where we needed to show ...