QA: How big is a work item?
July 24, 2015
Sometimes people email questions to me, directly. I love that (although I sometime need to postpone the answering for awhile) because it gives me such nice insight into how other teams work and function. Basically: I learn more and as you can see from the tag line of this blog… I’m into learning stuff.
The other day I got a question that I’ve heard before in variants. It’s also very reasonable and a bit complicated to answer: “How big is a work item really?”
I also got permission to publish the whole question and my answer here.
Here’s the question from their email:
We use the Jira platform for managing tickets and are using the in-built kanban board for the same. I would like to know how we can manage Subtasks within Change Requests. Would it be a good practice to have Change Requests and have subtasks...