From the course: Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team
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Delivering like an agile team
From the course: Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team
Delivering like an agile team
- Many projects create very detailed specifications. The problem with this approach is not every customer knows everything they want before the project begins. This is especially true with software projects. Agile addresses this challenge by changing the way the customer views the deliverable. The product owner doesn't try to know everything about the project. Instead, they focus on the highest-value items first. This is ranked in the product backlog that they were always updating. The hunt for agile value was part of a story that started a century ago. An Italian economist named Vilfredo Pareto was getting peas from his garden. Pareto noticed that roughly 20% of his pea plants produced about 80% of his peas. That meant that 20% of his pea plants were producing 80% of his overall pea harvest. This 80/20 rule stuck with him. Pareto may have never guessed that years later his rule was also true for software. In 2002, The Standish Group published a chart that showed how functions and…
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