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July 25, 2024We are consistently seeing three things right now in terms of how executives are tackling the technological challenges they are facing.
Read moreA key advantage of Agile (or Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, or others) is that, unlike a waterfall project, it doesn’t call for requirements (user stories) and design to be locked into place from the outset. Instead, requirements and design have room to evolve through the backlog grooming process. You can even change your priorities midway through, adding to the backlog, while existing user stories are de-prioritized or removed entirely.
This Agile advantage comes with the temptation to skip user story mapping and design all together—a huge detriment to a project and the team’s ability to succeed. After all, these sessions take time and effort. It’s a mistake to ignore them under the presumption that “they’re not agile” or because having a roadmap won’t give the flexibility to rank future priorities.
The fact is roadmapping (creating an high-level vision of your initiative) and story mapping (creating the preliminary set of user stories and prioritizing in a backlog) are effective ways to align teams around a set direction. It can even help facilitate future conversations of prioritization and backlog grooming.
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We are consistently seeing three things right now in terms of how executives are tackling the technological challenges they are facing.
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