'Just' is banned as a unit of effort

Sitting in a SCRUM meeting, I hear my pet peeve. “I just have to …” someone says. My internal alarm bells go off – NO! I have heard this refrain many times. It rarely ends well. “Just” is a word we use to trick ourselves that our environment is not complicated. Yes, the concept of the change is simple. The core logic that needs to change is not cimplicated. However the implementation rarel...