Predictability and the Agile Boundary
Explore how Agile balances the need for predictability and flexibility to support business objectives. This lesson helps you understand when stricter upfront planning is necessary and how Agile teams respond efficiently to changes, maintaining control over cost and schedule while adapting plans quickly.
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Most organizations can use the looser approaches described in this chapter most of the time and meet their business purposes. Some organizations have higher needs for predictability and need the stricter approaches.
Some Agile purists will complain that elaborating the product backlog to the degree needed to support fine-grain story pointing up front is “not Agile.” But the goal isn’t simply to be Agile (at least ...