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Plan at multiple levels

Plan at multiple levels

- One of the most common myths about Agile projects is that teams don't plan, they just take the vision and start building stuff. In reality, you'll spend more time planning with Agile than you did with traditional project processes. I know it sounds crazy but the basic philosophy of Agile planning is that we're planning to re-plan. Agile acknowledges that information work is inherently unpredictable. That being the case, it relies on adaptive planning. That means that we'll plan what we can upfront but know that we must adapt our plans throughout the project to meet the reality being faced by the team. In fact, if you think about it you're planning every day with Agile. At the start of the project you began with a vision for the project that's the strategic plan, what you're going to build and why it's valuable. Then you moved into planning your releases. Which MVPs do you plan to deliver when? Next, you…

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