It’s time to stop “doing” #agile and become agile
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At summer camp I taught orienteering. I taught young people how to use a map and compass to orient nature. I loved it…Lesson 1: Don’t trust the map more than your eyesFor anyone who has once trusted their GPS, yet it drove them in circles or into a blocked off street, you’ll understand the importance of this point.For many teams, a project plan is a roadmap without the privilege of real-time updates. In an ideal world, project velocity, burndown charts, and user stories with properly written Gherkin would fill every void, map every path, and produce every desire — they don’t. It’s not that those things don’t help — they do — it’s that they’re not a source of truth; they’re a source of insight. Those resources foster better questions that help teams make more competent decisions.Lesson 2: Understand your (...)
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