Most of the people either follow or have heard about the INVEST for stories and SMART for tasks principles. In this very short article, I will be sharing a few rules I follow when it comes to breaking down a story into tasks.

Learndot, our LMS, is developed by multiple teams from a few offices, a very large part of it is a monolith with limited modularity, and we are looking to decompose and build more services around it. A key question we often ask is, how can we reduce overheads (e.g. passing work…