--- Daði Ingólfsson <dadi@h...> wrote:
> I agree, but my PMs would contend that if you haven´t been
> able to finish the feature/story then we may have to slip
> our deadline to do so. This is exactly what we are doing
> right now ;-)

Can you get any useful work done in a day?

Let's say it will take two days to build a fence around our house.
Does that mean that we have to increase the number of hours in a day,
in order to be able to build the fence? No. It will just take two
days to build... the *ENTIRE* fence.

This is where the story writing gets interesting: What work *can* we
do in the first day, of a two day fence job? Maybe we could build
the front half of the fence. Maybe we could build the back half.
Maybe we could dig the holes and put in the posts and cross beams,
but not add the vertical slats or whitewash them. None of these
would "keep the dog in." But one would "make the house look nicer."
And one would "give you a good clear idea of where the fence will be,
how high it will be, and what you can see over it."

A partial fence may not provide some particular value that you've
decided that you need that can't be provided with anything other than
a fully completed fence. But that does not mean that the fence,
after the first day, can never provide any value at all.