So you do things one step at a time and timebox as you go? This method probably doesn't need its own name. In fact I think that's just what timeboxing is.

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bee_rider 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

FWIW Mikado seems to be the name of that game where you pick up one stick at a time from a pile, while trying to not disturb the pile. (I forget the exact rules). So it isn’t as if somebody is trying to name this method after themselves or something, it is just an attempt at an evocative made up term. Timeboxing is also, right? I mean, timeboxing is not recognized by my spell checker (I’d agree that it is more intuitive though).

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bregma 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Mikado is the name of an opera (by Gilbert and Sullivan) in which someone is deemed to have been executed without actually having been executed. Sounds like an ideal test strategy to me: yes, all the tests were executed, just not actually run.

	▲	zem 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		when I saw the title I was expecting a reference to the opera. was wondering if they were somehow going to work in the exchange "Besides, I don't see how a man can cut off his own head." "A man might try." in reference to gradually removing bits of the old code.

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kaffekaka 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Plockepinn in Swedish, approximately "pickastick".

Edit: thought I read it was of Scandinavian origin, hence my comment. But Wikipedia said european origin. Well well.

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topaz0 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There are important additions beyond timeboxing, at least according to the post. Notably, reverting your changes if you weren't able to complete the chosen task in the time box and starting over on a chosen subset of that task. I can imagine that part has benefits, though I haven't tried it myself.