September 2021
Intermediate to advanced
149 pages
3h 12m
English
Understandably, nearly all Agile approaches are designed with the implicit assumption that dependency management is hard, and, in fact, too expensive to manage, plan for, or predict. As a consequence, Agile processes which grudgingly acknowledge dependencies work very hard to remove them, minimize them, or pretend that they do not exist.
Often, backlogs are dependency trees compressed and stacked in a linear order. Or teams are resourced to make developers as fungible as possible. In the case of sprints, work ...
