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Do it in small pieces

In a Agile project when we plan the work for the project, we split it in small pieces, a.k.a. User Stories. Then in the begging of the project we prioritize the small pieces in order to do first the most important pieces ("how" to prioritize is a subject to another post). But all of this doesn't matter if the team decide to work in all the story at once. The whole idea of breaking down the work and prioritize it, is to be able to keep delivering some business value along the development time. And more than that is a way to follow up the project progress. Suppose that we have a project that will have 1 week iterations. In the first day of the 1ยบ iteration the project board was with this status: Stories                          In Dev                         In Tests                 Done 1                                       X 2                                       X 3                                       X 4 5 6 7 In the second day the developer Fulanom