Comments on: Agile 2008 – Scrum and Kanban http://www.ademiller.com/blogs/tech/2008/08/agile-2008-scrum-and-kanban/?&owa_from=feed&owa_sid= Thinking about agile (small 'a') software development, patterns and practices for building Microsoft .NET applications. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:02:38 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Amit http://www.ademiller.com/blogs/tech/2008/08/agile-2008-scrum-and-kanban/comment-page-1/#comment-246 Amit Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:03:42 +0000 http://www.ademiller.com/blogs/tech/?p=310#comment-246 In this "pull model" of working, where "lean planning" is limited to 1 sprint itself, do you see a danger of teams slipping into a mode where the overall model/end-2-end scenario takes a backseat and is probably not in anyone's head (or document).. Leading to frequent changes & rework as one moves from sprint to sprint. I am a big fan of lean planning cycles and NOT spending months on writing end-2-end functional specs which never see light of the day.... However, the other extreme view of "preaching" that no one in the team should think beyond a single sprint - seems way unoptimal as well. One need to strike a balance between - not spending months thinking about (planning) what needs to be done and not being too short sighted (where the "entire team" thinks of only as much as needs to be implemented in next 1 month).. I was wondering if I was the only one with such thoughts? In this “pull model” of working, where “lean planning” is limited to 1 sprint itself, do you see a danger of teams slipping into a mode where the overall model/end-2-end scenario takes a backseat and is probably not in anyone’s head (or document).. Leading to frequent changes & rework as one moves from sprint to sprint.

I am a big fan of lean planning cycles and NOT spending months on writing end-2-end functional specs which never see light of the day…. However, the other extreme view of “preaching” that no one in the team should think beyond a single sprint – seems way unoptimal as well.

One need to strike a balance between – not spending months thinking about (planning) what needs to be done and not being too short sighted (where the “entire team” thinks of only as much as needs to be implemented in next 1 month)..

I was wondering if I was the only one with such thoughts?

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