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I'm looking at eXtreme Programming and its release iterations based on User Stories. But I wonder how to integrate huge internal processes into this particular mind-set.

For example, the Google crawler doesn't relate to a specific User Story, it index web pages in order to make them available to the User Story "As an Internet User I want to provide key words In order to find web sites". But the development of a Crawler is a huge set of work that isn't atomic and can't be done in a single iteration.

How can this kind of development be handled by this methodology?

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Same way you approach any problem: by breaking down features into stories and stories into tasks.

What you've posited as being a story is in fact not a story but an entire feature (or, in some nomenclatures, a "product" of a sense; scrum practitioners frequently use the term "epic" to describe these).

That's why you're struggling to define it and to fit into your workflow.

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    This answer would be much more helpful when it would provide an example how this feature could be broken down into individual stories.
    – Philipp
    Mar 4, 2016 at 16:41
  • I'm aware about the EPICS groups and so on, but how can I break down a huge internal process that's isn't visible from the user into multiple User Stories? (As user stories should always be related to a end user, at least it's my current understanding)
    – NicoC
    Mar 4, 2016 at 16:48
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    @NicoC: Hint: A system or automated process can also be a user.
    – Robert Harvey
    Mar 4, 2016 at 17:03

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