“ So now we have the worst of both the Agile and plan-driven worlds: the business expects delivery of a fine-grained list of requirements (whether we call it a Product Backlog or a Master Story List), and we have only taken a half-hearted attempt at it compared to the big up-front analysis we used to do. From here on we are on the back foot, constantly negotiating with the business to manage scope, when it’s our own fault they even care about the story-level detail. They see the story backlog and mentally turn it 90 degrees and think of it as a Gantt chart. Happy days!
DanNorth.net » The perils of estimation
