From the course: Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories (2015)
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Avoiding agile stereotype traps
From the course: Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories (2015)
Avoiding agile stereotype traps
- Sometimes with newer Agile teams, you'll hear them say, "We don't plan because we're Agile." This causes a lot of confusion with the rest of the organization. They'll justifiably ask the question, how can you run a project without any planning? The truth is, you can't. Agile does have planning, it's just different from traditional project management planning. The planning rules are there, but they're just much more lightweight. You'll find this is true with a lot of Agile frameworks. In Agile, there aren't usually very many rules, but at least at the beginning, the rules that do exist should be closely followed. You don't want to start your Agile project by creating your own version of Scrum, extreme programming, or Kanban. Being Agile means that you allow your customer to change the product. It doesn't mean that you're free to change the framework. That means that if you're the Scrum master for the team, you should be very careful not to let the team get too creating with how…
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