Foreword
“Agile development won’t work at Yahoo! except maybe on small tactical projects, because teams don’t do any planning and team members can’t estimate their own work. They need to be told what to do.”
This is a real quote and something I’ve heard more than once since I began guiding the rollout of agile at Yahoo! People who don’t understand the concepts of agile development think that it’s simply a case of eliminating all documentation and planning, giving teams a license to hack. The reality could not be further from the truth.
“Teams don’t do any planning.” Those who say this forget that an agile team spends half a day every other week coming up with a list of tasks they’ll perform in order to deliver some user-valued functionality at ...
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