Putting It into Practice

We’ve done the heavy lifting. You now know all the theory. Let’s put the theory into practice and revisit the four challenges we faced at the beginning of the chapter and see how we could handle them with our new agile plan.

Scenario #1: Your Customer Discovers Some New Requirements

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When your customer discovers what they really want in their software, ask them how they’d like to handle it. You can push out the release date (which is like saying we are going to need more money), or you can drop some of the less important stories (preferred).

Don’t get emotional when you have this conversation. It’s not your call to make. ...

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