The (not so dirty) secret of agile is that many PMs are actually planning out work in advance, they just pretend to constantly adjust.
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Replying to @stubbornella
I agree waterfall is terrible. It is best to get designers, engineers, etc collaborating to solve hard problems. But waterfall is a strawman
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Replying to @stubbornella
I also wish waterfall was just a strawman. I've seen it argued with a straight face in tech companies in 2016.
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Replying to @stubbornella @wycats
new team I just joined is scrum-on-waterfall. The VPEng talks Agile (hence scrum) but all the principles are waterfall
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reason being, big financial suite requiring many legal compliance tasks, takes tons of planning
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and the basic things that make XP or Agile work well are often rendered moot for what we're doing
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Replying to @revin @stubbornella
even the most slow-moving dinosaurs have late-breaking requirements. Quite often more so! ("Congress passed a law...")
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Replying to @wycats @stubbornella
yes, that's exactly were most of our requirements changes come from. I'm not sure what we'll do then (still new here)
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but my guess is laws typically have enough lead time built in that it works out. Or we all panic. I'll find out
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