Task

[task, tahsk]

Definition of Task

A small, undivided, ‘chunk’ of work to be accomplished, usually within the Team. Tasks compose the team’s internal plan on how they will get Stories to “Done”.

Examples

The Team may need to task out the Stories in order to have a more fine-grained Plan of Action. In this case it winds up with a collection of Tasks for the Stories, but we must remember that it is not the Tasks the Team is agreeing to, it is the Stories and, specifically, the Stories’ Agreements on Done.
After agreeing on a Story, we broke the story into smaller Tasks for the Team to Swarm on.

Related Terms

External Sources

  1. 4 Reasons Why It's The Estimating that Matters, Not The Estimates

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