Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Planning Needs Feedback

Closing the feedback loop from implementation back to planning is
very important.  This should be uncontroversial. The proper unit of
feedback is the unit of planning -- the high level feature  / objective. 
Tracking individual tickets or sprints alone does not achieve this. 
Focusing on ticket or sprint level objectives may even be counterproductive 
by creating a false sense of security.
As the plan itself mutates over the course of execution, the number 
of sprints/tasks under that umbrella themselves mutate.  A team may 
be perfectly hitting all small scale targets while still being unreliable in
terms of delivery.

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