{"id":97,"date":"2017-07-06T20:39:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T20:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/liana\/?p=97"},"modified":"2017-08-12T20:53:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T20:53:32","slug":"timeboxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/liana\/2017\/07\/06\/timeboxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeboxing"},"content":{"rendered":"

As an engineer, I can have a hard time with this very important product management\u00a0technique. We’re driven to seek elegant,\u00a0flexible solutions, test thoroughly, take time to refactor, and leave a code base better than we\u00a0found it. But sometimes our perfectionism can keep features from making their way out the door.<\/p>\n

Truthfully, timeboxing can be your best friend if you let it.\u00a0The time limits forces you to ignore distractions and prioritize work. It keeps those\u00a0perfectionist tendencies in check, and limits the amount of time spent\u00a0on low-value activities.<\/p>\n

The constraint ensures that the team is building and delivering the most valuable work as soon as possible and those less critical tasks are left to the end. Sure it may mean that some requirements won\u2019t get implemented but what gets shipped are the most vital requirements.<\/p>\n

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I found\u00a0The Ultimate Agile Planning Handbook<\/a>\u00a0to be a good read on the subject. Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As an engineer, I can have a hard time with this very important product management\u00a0technique. We’re driven to seek elegant,\u00a0flexible solutions, test thoroughly, take time to refactor, and leave a code base better than we\u00a0found it. But sometimes our perfectionism can keep features from making their way out the door. Truthfully, timeboxing can be your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1911,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/liana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/liana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/liana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/liana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/liana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/liana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/liana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/liana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/liana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/liana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}