Agile - I do not think that word means what you think it means
/via http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2017/01/09/that-little-problem-with-agile/ The thing is, the higher up you go in the organizational food-chain, the more lip-service you get towards agility/flexibility. Actually, that’s not quite true — you’ll get the commitment, as long as everything goes just right . The easy part to get buy-in on, the thing that they totally get, is the bit about user feedback , short sprints , incremental releases , and so on. The part that you have to be very careful about though, is that in their minds, this, literally , translates to a linear progression , where, for example, over 10 sprints, you do 10% of the work each sprint. User Feedback, in their minds, is User Validation! To belabor the obvious, their intuitive understanding is that there are no “ wrong roads taken ” and no “ failed hypothesis ”. Be very, very , careful about this, and do your damndest to overcome this. I...