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6. Observe and Plan

Rick Freedman

(1)Lenexa, Kansas, USA

Every agilist knows that, when developing products using agile practices, planning , design, development, and testing are no longer sequential, as in traditional waterfall methods, but are occurring in parallel and being refined incrementally. The same is true for the visualization, observation, and planning work we’ve been discussing in these chapters. Although necessarily presented sequentially, in real client engagements we typically don’t have the luxury of completing a fully vetted agile vision or roadmap before we begin to engage in the development of agile teams. Although some agile transitions are ...

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