18. Edit Those Epics
I’ve been working with folks making their transition to agile. In this process, I’ve discovered transitioning to agile is hardest for managers and technical leaders.
Managers are accustomed to working in timeboxes. To them, the iteration is a timebox. But, they also are accustomed to features spanning multiple timeboxes, and that’s not OK in agile.
They are accustomed to predicting the end of the project, and they now want to use the team’s velocity and the story sizes to predict the end of the project. That’s OK, but it’s not always wise. It assumes nothing will change, but agile is all about fast change. The managers’ fixed mindset is bumping up against the technical team’s change mindset.
This leads me to a root cause. ...
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