Nicole is invited to help a program where, even though not mandated by the external environment, management
Question:
Nicole is invited to help a program where, even though not mandated by the external environment, management requires teams to make big, up-front, and detailed scope commitments for every release. What can Nicole do to best coach the decision-makers?
· Explain that too much up-front detail demotivates product owners as they have almost operation thing to do a afterwards
· Satisfy the immediate need and improve later
· Explain the benefits of releasing at the end of the program increment
· Emphasize the value of "responding to change" from the agile manifesto
· Illustrate the power of feedback in content decision-making
· Explain the "understand and exploit variability" principle of product development flow