Succeeding with Agile

Getting Used to Life Without a Big Design

As Scrum teams begin to become adept at the technical practices described in this chapter, they will naturally begin to shift further away from anticipating users’ needs and more toward adapting to them. This will result in a number of changes for the agile architect or designer to become accustomed to. The new realities caused by this shift include the following:

• Planning is harder. Estimating, planning, and committing to deliverables is already hard; it becomes more difficult in the absence of an up-front design. A lot of thinking goes into creating an up-front design. Some of that thinking is helpful in estimating how long things will take and in combining estimates into plans. The upside to forgoing ...